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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:49:20 +0100
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To: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> But: the question is whether you'll need such a test at all
> or if just using sizeof() at the right place won't do the trick ;-P

It's best to do that if you can, and nearly always possible.  There
are a few coding techniques - especially performance sensitive - where
that's not feasible.

-- Jamie