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On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>   But of course when this goes on, soon the gcc commandline will get
> really awfully ugly. This is why something _like_ autoconf is a good
> thing - you can just detect if the system headers provide the type and
> #define it only when they don't.

not you. Someone has done the job of detecting things for you.
It's just a fair amount of hard work badly done.