Jim Meyering asks:
> I'm curious: what's your motivation for using it?
Portability testing. Through the BeOS porting, I found the following
problems not limited to BeOS:
- check-AUTHORS: applies to any platform that doesn't build all of the
programs.
- mbchar.h problem: applies to any platform that has mbrtowc() but no
<wctype.h>.
- fchmod: applies to any platform without fchmod(); that includes mingw
and djgpp.
- fsusage.m4: applies to the Hurd.
- printf of f_fsid: applies to any platform where f_fsid is not 64 bits.
- fchdir: applies to any platform without fchdir(); that includes mingw
and djgpp.
Other people do portability testing differently. The more different testing
strategies are used, the better is quality of the result.
Bruno
