I will never understand the point of using autotools, cmake or whatever configure system, when later the code uses an hardcoded list of architectures to determine the size of a pointer... Unfortunately for porters this pattern is quite common.

Update: As people keep asking, the way to check for the size of a given type is explained in the autoconf manual. To check for the size of the pointer, the following entry has to be added to configure.ac:

AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *)

On a 64-bit system, this will lead to the following entry in config.h:

/* The size of `void *', as computed by sizeof. */ #define SIZEOF_VOID_P 8