2 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
4 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
5 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
9 AC_DEFUN([gl_SIZE_MAX],
11 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h)
12 dnl First test whether the system already has SIZE_MAX.
13 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for SIZE_MAX])
14 AC_CACHE_VAL([gl_cv_size_max], [
16 AC_EGREP_CPP([Found it], [
24 ], gl_cv_size_max=yes)
25 if test -z "$gl_cv_size_max"; then
26 dnl Define it ourselves. Here we assume that the type 'size_t' is not wider
27 dnl than the type 'unsigned long'. Try hard to find a definition that can
28 dnl be used in a preprocessor #if, i.e. doesn't contain a cast.
29 _AC_COMPUTE_INT([sizeof (size_t) * CHAR_BIT - 1], size_t_bits_minus_1,
31 #include <limits.h>], size_t_bits_minus_1=)
32 _AC_COMPUTE_INT([sizeof (size_t) <= sizeof (unsigned int)], fits_in_uint,
33 [#include <stddef.h>], fits_in_uint=)
34 if test -n "$size_t_bits_minus_1" && test -n "$fits_in_uint"; then
35 if test $fits_in_uint = 1; then
36 dnl Even though SIZE_MAX fits in an unsigned int, it must be of type
37 dnl 'unsigned long' if the type 'size_t' is the same as 'unsigned long'.
38 AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stddef.h>
40 extern unsigned long foo;
41 ], [], fits_in_uint=0)
43 dnl We cannot use 'expr' to simplify this expression, because 'expr'
44 dnl works only with 'long' integers in the host environment, while we
45 dnl might be cross-compiling from a 32-bit platform to a 64-bit platform.
46 if test $fits_in_uint = 1; then
47 gl_cv_size_max="(((1U << $size_t_bits_minus_1) - 1) * 2 + 1)"
49 gl_cv_size_max="(((1UL << $size_t_bits_minus_1) - 1) * 2 + 1)"
52 dnl Shouldn't happen, but who knows...
53 gl_cv_size_max='((size_t)~(size_t)0)'
57 AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_size_max])
58 if test "$gl_cv_size_max" != yes; then
59 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([SIZE_MAX], [$gl_cv_size_max],
60 [Define as the maximum value of type 'size_t', if the system doesn't define it.])