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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-10-02 21:00:20 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-10-02 21:00:20 +0000
commit36adc7cdd90f195013eb8e24a90ef40348787212 (patch)
treee91fc5837efd4ee879f3a22f80ff206629970059
parent14f9b537d124866bf67befc473ac5be04f457db4 (diff)
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r8844@totoro: nickm | 2006-10-02 16:32:44 -0400
Resolve an XXXX: make sure that we are actually on 2s-complement hardware. svn:r8576
-rw-r--r--configure.in21
-rw-r--r--src/common/torint.h9
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 45a1ffc54..6ea5dac07 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -588,6 +588,27 @@ if test $tor_cv_malloc_zero_works = yes; then
[Define to 1 iff malloc(0) returns a pointer])
fi
+# whether we seem to be in a 2s-complement world.
+if test -z "$CROSS_COMPILE"; then
+AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether we are using 2s-complement arithmetic], tor_cv_twos_complement,
+[AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE(
+[[int main () { int problem = ((-99) != (~99)+1);
+return problem ? 1 : 0; }]])],
+ [tor_cv_twos_complement=yes],
+ [tor_cv_twos_complement=no],
+ [tor_cv_twos_complement=cross])])
+
+else
+ # Cross-compiling; let's hope that the target isn't raving mad.
+ AC_MSG_NOTICE([Cross-compiling: we'll assume that NULL is represented as a sequence of 0-valued bytes.])
+ tor_cv_twos_complement=yes
+fi
+
+if test $tor_cv_twos_complement = yes; then
+ AC_DEFINE([USING_TWOS_COMPLEMENT], 1,
+ [Define to 1 iff we represent negative integers with two's complement])
+fi
+
# Whether we should use the dmalloc memory allocation debugging library.
AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to use dmalloc (debug memory allocation library))
AC_ARG_WITH(dmalloc,
diff --git a/src/common/torint.h b/src/common/torint.h
index b69af3eea..6ec53ed12 100644
--- a/src/common/torint.h
+++ b/src/common/torint.h
@@ -220,9 +220,12 @@ typedef uint32_t uintptr_t;
#error "Missing type uint64_t"
#endif
-/* XXXX This assumes a sane (2's-complement) representation. But if you
- * aren't 2's complement, and you don't define LONG_MAX, then you're so
- * bizarre that I want nothing to do with you. */
+/* This assumes a sane (2's-complement) representation. But if you
+ * aren't 2's complement, and you don't define LONG_MAX, then you're so
+ * bizarre that I want nothing to do with you. */
+#ifndef USING_TWOS_COMPLEMENT
+#error "Seems that your platform doesn't use 2's complement arithmetic. Argh."
+#endif
#ifndef LONG_MAX
#if (SIZEOF_LONG == 4)
#define LONG_MAX 0x7fffffffL