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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2018-05-09 14:43:08 +0530 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-05-09 14:43:08 +0530 |
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Reference-manual: compiler checks
Document that compiler checks are self-contained and
do not add arguments from anywhere else.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 776703c..316c0b5 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1636,6 +1636,12 @@ The following keyword arguments can be used: `sizeof`, `has_type`, `has_function`, `has_member`, `has_members`, `has_header_symbol`. +**Note:** These compiler checks do not use compiler arguments added with +`add_*_arguments()`, via `-Dlang_args` on the command-line, or through +`CFLAGS`/`LDFLAGS`, etc in the environment. Hence, you can trust that +the tests will be fully self-contained, and won't fail because of custom +flags added by other parts of the build file or by users. + Note that if you have a single prefix with all your dependencies, you might find it easier to append to the environment variables `C_INCLUDE_PATH` with GCC/Clang and `INCLUDE` with MSVC to expand the |