Hello, * James Youngman wrote on Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:57:01AM CEST: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > > I suspect that the most useful thing we can do in gnulib is define > > PATH_MAX to a non-constant expression on all platforms, > > > > And intentionally break loads of existing code? > > I am highly doubtful that that is "useful"; "painful" sounds more > > accurate :). > > I much prefer obvious breakage, in which problem code simply fails to > compile, to subtle breakage where your code compiles on all the > systems you have access to but still has subtle problems.
Is it possible to define it to an expression which will cause a warning if used in a way requiring it to be a constant expression? If not, that sounds like it could be a useful GCC extension (if maybe one not so easy to implement). Cheers, Ralf
