[Zlib-devel] TR: the win32\Makefile.msc diff

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
> On 3/21/2010 4:22 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

>> But you can make the compiler fail if sizeof(..) doesnt match a
>> specific size, so use for a compile-test (in ./configure).
>
> The compiler?  Do you mean at run time, e.g. if (sizeof(z_off64_t) != 8) exit(1);
> or something obvious I'm not seeing?
> 
> You are suggesting fail within the "compiler", e.g. cpp?

See BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO in [1].  The history of that file has several versions. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/kernel.h;hb=master