[Python-Dev] Cross Compiling

[Adam Langley]

The configure script (for 2.2.3 at least) has defaults for its tests
of sizeof(int) and the like which are completely broken for cross 
compiling. (They are generally values for a 32-bit system).

It's quite understandable why this configure code cannot be used with
a cross gcc:
  FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
  if (!f) exit(1);
  fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(int));
  exit(0);

So can I suggest a better(?) way of doing this (for systems with a GNU
toolchain at least):

sizeof.c:
#include <asm/types.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <time.h>

const 	__u8	sizeof_int[sizeof(int)];
const	__u8	sizeof_long[sizeof(long)];
const	__u8	sizeof_voidp[sizeof(void *)];
const	__u8	sizeof_char[sizeof(char )];
const	__u8	sizeof_short[sizeof(short)];
const	__u8	sizeof_float[sizeof(float)];
const	__u8	sizeof_double[sizeof(double)];
const	__u8	sizeof_long_long[sizeof(long long)];
const	__u8	sizeof_off_t[sizeof(off_t)];
const 	__u8	sizeof_time_t[sizeof(time_t)];
const	__u8	sizeof_pthread_t[sizeof(pthread_t)];

% gcc -g -c sizeof.c
% objdump -t sizeof.o | grep 'sizeof_[^ ]+$' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1; }'
sizeof_int 0000000000000004
sizeof_long 0000000000000008
sizeof_voidp 0000000000000008
sizeof_char 0000000000000001
sizeof_short 0000000000000002
sizeof_float 0000000000000004
sizeof_double 0000000000000008
sizeof_long_long 0000000000000008
sizeof_off_t 0000000000000008
sizeof_time_t 0000000000000008
sizeof_pthread_t 0000000000000008

I'm afraid that I lack the required autoconf-fu to supply a helpfuly
patch to configure.in.

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