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author | Moody Liu <mooodyhunter@outlook.com> | 2023-09-05 00:47:48 +0800 |
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committer | Xavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com> | 2023-09-09 07:25:27 -0400 |
commit | 3c47216fe945a45834daa38f71e287dcfaf345c7 (patch) | |
tree | e208f26df2306a4080cbaa28db5f427b44e455f2 /docs/markdown/snippets | |
parent | 306efbd5b77abdc6ffca27bcb049f3196b7e3451 (diff) | |
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clike compilers: fix cross_* functions' include
A standard C library may not exist for cross-compile
environments, thus the existence of <stdio.h> cannot be
guaranteed.
Use <stddef.h> instead, this header contains compiler-specific
defines thus it usually comes from the compiler.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/clike_compilers_implicit_includes.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/clike_compilers_implicit_includes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a26ec03 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/clike_compilers_implicit_includes.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +## Clarify of implicitly-included headers in C-like compiler checks + +Compiler check methods `compiler.compute_int()`, `compiler.alignment()` +and `compiler.sizeof()` now have their implicitly-included headers +corrected and documented. + +`<stdio.h>` was included unintentionally when cross-compiling, which +is less than ideal because there is no guarantee that a standard library +is available for the target platform. Only `<stddef.h>` is included instead. + +For projects that depend on the old behavior, the compiler check methods +have an optional argument `prefix`, which can be used to specify additional +`#include` directives. |