I need to know is there a method for gcc to check presence of those awesome __builtin_MY_DESIRED_FUNCTIONs
For example, I'd like to use __builtin_nan
and be sure it is available for my program and it won't fail during compilation time.
I'll be more specific: on clang there is __has_builtin
"checker" so we can write smth like
#if __has_builtin(__builtin_nan)
But I can't find analog for gcc.
And probably I can rely just on gcc, like "Oh, I'm on gcc now, just let's assume all of those __builtin_
are here like in example below..."
#if __GNUC__
double mynan = __builtin_nan("0");
#endif
And probably it will work, till someone put this "-fno-builtin" compilation flag.
No, you will have to use __GNUC__
and __GNUC_MINOR__
(and __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__
if you use such gcc versions) to test for each release specific builtin function (gcc releases can be found here)
For example:
/* __builtin_mul_overflow_p added in gcc 7.4 */
#if (__GNUC__ > 7) || \
((__GNUC__ == 7) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ > 3))
#define BUILTIN_MUL_OVERFLOW_EXIST
#endif
#ifdef BUILTIN_MUL_OVERFLOW_EXIST
int c = __builtin_mul_overflow_p (3, 2, 3) ? 0 : 3 * 2;
#endif
And there is an open bug for exactly what you are asking about, in here.