[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4.4 -- a 1.2.5 release candidate

[Mark Adler]

On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Cosmin Truta wrote:
> Actually, I found out that this attribute works not only on gcc-4, but
> also on gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4.

If this is only useful on gcc, how about I take the hidden test out of configure completely and just use the macro tests?

There are three kinds of functions to identify which I will call "published functions" (available to an application), "internal functions" (external but only accessible within zlib modules), and "local functions" (not external).  The best thing might be to prepend new macros to the latter two cases, and then define those macros for gcc, and possibly later for other compiler that provide analogous functionality.

Mark