Cross-compilers.

[David Howells]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> For example, why do runtime checks for word-size when you can just use
> explicitly sized C99 types if you actually care?

But you might have to build with a compiler that doesn't support them.

> Maybe autotools wouldn't be so bad if it was made much harder to do
> stupid things.

We could take your compiler away from you and make you use Java too.

David