auto::sizes: Complete development of maxmin probes

[jkeenan]

In the course of work on TT #563, we recognized that there was certain code probing for minimum and maximum values for intval and floatval macros that was not yet working. This work needs to be completed.

The files intval_maxmin_c.in and floatval_maxmin_c.in are now found in config/auto/sizes/.

[jkeenan]

This is where things stood:

 $conf->cc_gen('config/auto/format/intval_maxmin_c.in');
 eval { $conf->cc_build(); };
 if ( $@ ) {
     $ivmin = '0';
     $ivmax = '0';
 }

...

 $conf->cc_gen('config/auto/format/floatval_maxmin_c.in');
 eval { $conf->cc_build(); };
 if ( $@ ) {
     $nvmin = '0';
     $nvmax = '0';
 }

[jkeenan]

Remaining work on this ticket should take into account tests in t/steps/auto_sizes-01.t, including tests I just added to complete code coverage.

[jkeenan]

Replying to jkeenan:

This is where things stood: {{{ $conf->cc_gen('config/auto/format/intval_maxmin_c.in'); eval { $conf->cc_build(); }; if ( $@ ) { $ivmin = '0'; $ivmax = '0'; } ... $conf->cc_gen('config/auto/format/floatval_maxmin_c.in'); eval { $conf->cc_build(); }; if ( $@ ) { $nvmin = '0'; $nvmax = '0'; } }}}

Is there work still to be done on this ticket?

[jkeenan]

Extensive work by plobsing++ in February of this year supersedes the code needing revision per this ticket. So I'm closing the ticket.

Thank you very much.

kid51