Re: [PATCH] define own version of PRIdPTR on platform where its not available

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:52:43AM +0100, Gabor Greif wrote:
> 
> I have a solution on the cross-compiler-alienless branch which does exactly
> what you propose: feed the relevant headers into the cross-gcc, obtain
> the offsets/sizes back
> by 'nm', and massage stuff to obtain all as macros then feed those
> into mkDerivedConstants.c.

I'll take a look, but I worry that we will have problems such as output
varying with different versions of nm, output being different on Linux
vs OS X vs Windows, and padding possibly meaning that we get the wrong
values.

> So, unless we want a very generic solution, where more than one cross
> target is possible,
> there is no need to abolish mkDerivedConstants.c. The current
> architecture would do with
> a few tweaks.

Multiple targets wouldn't matter here: Whatever we do, if we want to
support multiple targets we'll just run it separately for each target.


Thanks
Ian