Merge pull request #400 from kdeme/master

nicowilliams · nicowilliams · commit 15c4a7f95f32 · 2014-06-12T15:55:41.000-05:00
Heuristic IEEE754 endianness autoconf detection

Use AC_C_BIGENDIAN, though it's not really the correct approach.  Autoconf ought to have provided a test specifically for IEEE754 endianness, since it can differ from integer/pointer endianness!
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ if test $have___thread = yes; then
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($have___thread)
 
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN(
+   AC_DEFINE([IEEE_MC68k], 1, [machine is bigendian]),
+   AC_DEFINE([IEEE_8087], 1, [machine is littleendian]),
+   AC_MSG_ERROR(unknown endianess),
+   AC_MSG_ERROR(universial endianess not supported)
+)
 
 AC_SUBST([BUNDLER], ["$bundle_cmd"])
 
diff --git a/jv_dtoa.c b/jv_dtoa.c
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@
  *	used for input more than STRTOD_DIGLIM digits long (default 40).
  */
 
-#define IEEE_8087
 #define NO_ERRNO
 #define NO_HEX_FP
 #define No_Hex_NaN
