SUMMARY: C Compiler Predefined Manifest Definitions
Warren Tucker
wht at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
Tue Aug 21 14:52:19 AEST 1990
In article <185 at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> I wrote:
> I would like to compile a list of pre-defined manifest constants
> supplied by various C compilers.
I apologize for the lousiness of this summary. I meant to make a
tabular representation, but my typing is already slow and I have
been quite ill since posting the request. I will attempt to
do so when I get well. Thanks to each of you for your response.
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Pat Rankin, rankin at eql.caltech.edu
DEC's C compiler for VMS defines the following:
VAX, vax /* hardware */
VMS, vms /* operating system */
VAXC, vaxc /* compiler name (current) */
VAX11C, vax11c /* obsolete compiler name */
Two other tokens (set to 1 or 0, not defined vs undefined) are set up
based on command line switches: CC$gfloat and CC$parallel.
GCC (GNU C) defines 'vax' (but not 'VAX'), both 'vms' and 'VMS',
and also '__GNUC__' and '__STDC__'. Due to inadequate documentation,
I'm not sure if it has any others.
Note that ANSI mandates that things of this nature must begin
with two underscores. It will be interesting to see how the various
compilers make the conversion. DEC stresses backwards compatability
(meaning don't make changes which break existing code) very strongly;
eliminating pre-defined 'VMS' and 'vms' will break lots of stuff.
Their C implementation is not as successful at retaining compatability
as most of their other software, but I suspect they'll add a command
line switch (possibly turned on by default) which specifies whether to
define these non-ANSI tokens.
Pat Rankin, rankin at eql.caltech.edu
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charlie at stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
The IBM PC/RT defines
ibm032
what 032 is, I don't know.
I know you probably don't care, and RTs are almost defunct anyway,
but maybe you can use it as a trivia question someday. Anyway, you
did ask.
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Alex Pruss pruss at ria.ccs.uwo.ca
Under MSDOS:
MSDOS -- defined by Microsoft C
__MSDOS__ -- defined by Turbo C
__TURBOC__ -- Turbo C version number 0x0150 is 1.50, etc.
then of course there is __GNUC__ for gcc, and __STDC__ for ANSI.
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John Limpert johnl at gronk.UUCP
This system (UniPlus 5.0 on a Heurikon HK68) defines 'mc68000' and 'unix'.
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lerman at stepstone.com (Ken Lerman)
HP800:
D__STDC__ -D__hp9000s800 -D__hppa -D__hpux -D__unix
DG Aviion:
D__ghs__ -D__m88k__ -D__DGUX__ -D__STDC__ -D__unix__ -D__using_DGUX
DEC3100:
-Dmips -DLANGUAGE_C -DMIPSEL
SCO unix:
-DM_I86 -DM_I86SM -DM_SDATA -DM_STEXT -DM_I386 -DM_XENIX
-DM_BITFIELDS -Di386=1 -DM_INTERNAT -Dunix=1 -DM_UNIX -DM_COFF
-DM_SYS5 -DM_SYSV -DM_SYS3 -DM_SYSIII -DM_WORDSWAP -D__STDC__=0
The above are the switches we set when using our own preprocessor on the
above platforms. Unfortunately, the list may not be complete or up to date.
What I generally do with a new platform is first grep the files in
/usr/include and its subdirectories looking for #ifdefs or #if
defined. I then make a test program that looks like:
main()
{
#if defined(A_CANDIDATE_MANIFEST_CONSTANT)
printf("A_CANDIDATE_MANIFEST_CONSTANT = %d\n",
A_CANDIDATE_MANIFEST_CONSTANT);
#endif
}
So far, I haven't been bitten by the fact that the constant
may not be an integer.
Of course, I could just look at the preprocessor output for the above
program (assuming the system has that facility).
ANSI could have done us all (well, those of us who care) a big favor
by requiring conforming compilers to either have a switch which causes
the display of all of the predefined manifest constants or a document
describing such constants.
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Larry Jones scjones at thor.UUCP
According to my System V manual, you should add the following:
operating system: unix, dmert, gcos, ibm, os, tss
hardware: i286, interdata, u370, u3b, u3b5, u3b2, u3b15, u3b20d
UNIX system variant: RES, RT
lint: lint
DEC's Vax-11 C for VMS (and, I presume, Ultrix) defines:
operating system: vms, VMS
hardware: vax, VAX
compiler: vaxc, VAXC, vax11c, VAX11C
SAS's compiler for the IBM 370 defines:
operating system: OSVS, CMS
compiler: I370
debugging: DEBUG, NDEBUG
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donp at novell.com (don provan)
A noble goal. In Microsoft C 5.1 i find an OS specified: MSDOS; some
additional "machine types" (really memory model indications): M_I86SM,
M_I86CM, M_I86MM, M_I86LM, M_I86HM; and two compilation flags:
NO_EXT_KEYS, _CHAR_UNSIGNED.
WATCOM C 386 (in addition to above for MSC compatibility) defines more
model specifications: __FLAT__, __SMALL__, __MEDIUM__, __COMPACT__,
__LARGE__; a machine specifier: __386__; and the compiler ID:
__WATCOMC__.
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Warner Losh imp at Solbourne.COM
My current compiler doesn't, but my last one did:
VAX-C for VMS does:
vax VAX vms VMS VAXC vaxc
and maybe:
VAXC$G_FLOAT
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michi at ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning)
You can add AIX for AIX version 2.1.0 and later (runs on IBM RT's).
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John Hascall hascall at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
They following are defined on my DECstation:
unix bsd4_2 ultrix mips
host_mips ! presumably for cross-development
MIPSEL ! MIPS Endian Little (as opposed to MIPSEB [big])
LANGAUGE_C ! I guess you can run other languages through the
! preprovessor?
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Paul Davey pd at x.co.uk
Older Acorn RISC iX (bsd4.3) machines define "arm"
Their newer compilers define "__arm"
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Marcel-Franck Simon mingus at attunix.ATT.COM
uts == Amdahl's UTS
u3b == AT&T 3B20
u3b15 == AT&T 3B15
u3b2 == AT&T 3b2
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Amos Shapira amoss at batata.huji.ac.il.bitnet
Following are strings defined by the /lib/cpp of SGI (Silicon
Graphics):
mips
host_mips
__EXTENSIONS__ (don't know what that means, maybe you can cross it
with other machines).
sgi
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uunet.UU.NET!dptechno!dave (Dave Lee)
Here is an excerpt from HP-UX 7.0 on a HP9000/345 system cc(1) man page.
Native cc.
operating system unix, __unix
hardware hp9000s800, hp9000s500,
hp9000s300, hp9000s200,
hp9000ipc, __hp9000s800
__hp9000s300, hppa,
__hppa
UNIX systems variant
PWB, __PWB, hpux, __hpux,
_HPUX_SOURCE
lint(1) lint, __lint
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Tom Ploegmakers tomp at nikhefk.uucp
I found the following in the sources on our gould (~= 4.3BSD) and 2.10BSD
systems. I haven't checked on the ifdefs in the sources though.
BSD2_10
BSD2_9
GOULD_PN
gould
interdata
mc68000
mert
os
pdp11
sel
sun
tss
vax
Strings on /lib/cpp reveals
on gould:
GOULD_PN
gould
unix
(hmm... there used to be 'sel' and 'selport' or something in it as well)
on pdp11:
BSD2_10
pdp11
unix
on sun
mc68000
mc68020
unix
I'm quite sure the following will exist as well
BSD4_3
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gordon at sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
__GNUC__ GNU C compiler
__OPTIMIZE__ GNU C compiler with optimization turned on
__STRICT_ANSI__ GNU C compiler with strict-ANSI mode turned on
__CHAR_UNSIGNED__ GNU C compiler operating with unsigned characters
Following predefined by Xenix/68000 System III compiler:
M68000 processor type
M_M68000 processor type
unix os type
M_XENIX os type
M_SYS3 If compiling in System III mode (selection of include files,
libraries, etc.)
M_SYSIII If compiling in System III mode (selection of include files,
libraries, etc.)
M_V7 If compiling in Version 7 mode (selection of include files,
libraries, etc.)
M_BYTESWAP Byte order
M_BITFIELDS compiler supports bitfields
Gordon L. Burditt
sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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Hans Randgaard (hbr at elctr.dk)
The apollo machines(DN3000, DN4000 etc.) have the constant: apollo
defined.
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Sean Fagan seanf at sco.COM
SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 (tm, tm, tm, tm, tm, tm?)
Development System Release 3.2.2
OMF code generation: M_XOUT
COFF code generation: M_COFF
Always defined: M_XENIX
Unix 3.2 code generation: M_UNIX
(Note that either of the first two can be used with the last.)
If you have access to an SCO machine, do a 'cc -z foo.c' to see all of them;
try the various other options as well...
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Harm Van Houten unido!athen!hvh
I am working on a Siemens MX300 with SINIX Version 5.2.
It is a widespread *NIX machine in western europe and I
found the following predefined :
nsc32000 /* That's Hardware 'cause of National Semi 32332 or 32532 CPU */
ns32000
ns16000
D=sinix /* That's the name of the OS */
D=unix /* 'cause of compatibility */
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Mark Harrison harrison at necssd.NEC.COM
>From "man cpp" on DEC 5810 MIPS Ultrix:
The symbols predefined by this
implementation are bsd4_2, ultrix, unix,
mips, host_mips, and MIPSEL.
>From "man cpp" on Sun 4/490:
Operating System: ibm, gcos, os, tss and
unix
Hardware: interdata, pdp11,
u370, u3b, u3b2, u3b5,
u3b15, u3b20d, vax,
mc68000, mc68010,
mc68020, ns32000,
iAPX286, i386, sparc,
and sun
UNIX system variant: RES,
and RT
The lint(1V) command:
lint
The symbols sun and unix are defined for all
Sun systems, as is the value returned by the
mach command. For Sun-4 systems, this value
would be sparc. In addition, mc68000 is
defined for Sun-2, Sun-3, and Sun-3x systems.
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friedl at mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Steve Friedl)
What fun list! I have found many myself and am getting more all the time:
unix almost everybody
u3b AT&T 3B20
u3b2 AT&T 3B2
u3b5 AT&T 3B15
u3b15 AT&T 3B15
sparc Sun Sparcstations (same as sun4?)
ns16000 Sequent Balance, Encore Multimax
ns32000 Sequent Balance, Encore Multimax
ns32032 Encore Multimax
ns32332 Encore Multimax
M68020 ARIX [?]
tower32 NCR Tower
tower32_700 NCR Tower
tower32_800 NCR Tower
mc68000 Sun 3
mc68020 Sun 3
hp9000_200 HP 9000 series 200 (68k family)
hp9000_300 HP 9000 series 300 (68k family)
hp9000s200 HP 9000 series 200 (68k family)
hp9000s300 HP 9000 series 300 (68k family)
hppa HP Precision Architecture (HP 9000 series 800)
hp9000s800 HP 9000 series 8xx
aiws IBM AIX - PC/RT
AIX IBM AIX - PC/RT
_IBMR2 IBM AIX - RS6000
i386 most 386 machines, Sequent Symmetry
M_I86 Xenix 2.3.2
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Warren Tucker, TuckerWare gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
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