Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> BTW, as a shortcut to testing for various standard library functions
> existing, you could also test if a ISO C 1999 standard C library is
> present if you test that __STDC_VERSION__ is equal *or* greater than
> 199901L (make sure you compile it as C not C++ code, that is, use a ".c"
> rather than a ".cpp" extension and make sure to call a C not the C++
> compiler) i.e. with
> 
>     int main()
>     {
>         return __STDC_VERSION__;
>     }
> 
This is probably a bad idea. It looks like __STDC_VERSION__ is significantly 
larger than 128. Some UNIX systems use only 1 byte to store the exit 
code of a program and hence, this will fail on these systems. 

I'd use a printf() statement instead. 

Wolfgang

Post a reply to this message