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#  http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_compile_check_sizeof.html
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#
# SYNOPSIS
#
#   AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(TYPE [, HEADERS [, EXTRA_SIZES...]])
#
# DESCRIPTION
#
#   This macro checks for the size of TYPE using compile checks, not run
#   checks. You can supply extra HEADERS to look into. the check will cycle
#   through 1 2 4 8 16 and any EXTRA_SIZES the user supplies. If a match is
#   found, it will #define SIZEOF_`TYPE' to that value. Otherwise it will
#   emit a configure time error indicating the size of the type could not be
#   determined.
#
#   The trick is that C will not allow duplicate case labels. While this is
#   valid C code:
#
#     switch (0) case 0: case 1:;
#
#   The following is not:
#
#     switch (0) case 0: case 0:;
#
#   Thus, the AC_TRY_COMPILE will fail if the currently tried size does not
#   match.
#
#   Here is an example skeleton configure.in script, demonstrating the
#   macro's usage:
#
#     AC_PROG_CC
#     AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stddef.h unistd.h)
#     AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
#     AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
#
#     headers='#ifdef HAVE_STDDEF_H
#     #include <stddef.h>
#     #endif
#     #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
#     #include <unistd.h>
#     #endif
#     '
#
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(char)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(short)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(unsigned char *)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(size_t, $headers)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(ssize_t, $headers)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(ptrdiff_t, $headers)
#     AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF(off_t, $headers)
#
# LICENSE
#
#   Copyright (c) 2008 Kaveh Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
#
#   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
#   Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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#
#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
#   Public License for more details.
#
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#
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#serial 5

AU_ALIAS([AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF], [AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF])
AC_DEFUN([AX_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF],
[changequote(<<, >>)dnl
dnl The name to #define.
define(<<AC_TYPE_NAME>>, translit(sizeof_$1, [a-z *], [A-Z_P]))dnl
dnl The cache variable name.
define(<<AC_CV_NAME>>, translit(ac_cv_sizeof_$1, [ *], [_p]))dnl
changequote([, ])dnl
AC_MSG_CHECKING(size of $1)
AC_CACHE_VAL(AC_CV_NAME,
[for ac_size in 4 8 1 2 16 $3 ; do # List sizes in rough order of prevalence.
  AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include "confdefs.h"
#include <sys/types.h>
$2
], [switch (0) case 0: case (sizeof ($1) == $ac_size):;], AC_CV_NAME=$ac_size)
  if test x$AC_CV_NAME != x ; then break; fi
done
])
if test x$AC_CV_NAME = x ; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot determine a size for $1])
fi
AC_MSG_RESULT($AC_CV_NAME)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(AC_TYPE_NAME, $AC_CV_NAME, [The number of bytes in type $1])
undefine([AC_TYPE_NAME])dnl
undefine([AC_CV_NAME])dnl
])