Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:

>  - The configure scirpt knows of no other ways to find an appropriate type
>    for this define (BFD_HOST_64_BIT)

FWIW, see bfd/configure.host.  You can define variables there to set a
64 bit type which works on the host, based on the host configuration
name.

>  - fix bfd configure or bfd.h.in to at least check for <inttypes.h> and use
>    the C99 integer types if available
> 
> I would say the latter is the right thing to do, and the first a good
> hot fix.

Yes--the latter change should be probably be made in the GNU sources.

You didn't mention the possibility of checking for lint as well as
__GNUC__.

Ian