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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2009-11-06 07:56:01 +0100
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2009-11-06 07:56:01 +0100
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Detection (and warning) of char size in bits
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@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ cf_time (cf_who.U):
Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
+charbits (charsize.U):
+ This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
+
+charsize (charsize.U):
+ This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
+
chgrp (Loc.U):
This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
The value is the empty string and is not useful.