Add a check and warning about signaling NaN support to 'configure.ac'

Add a check of the '__SUPPORT_SNAN__' predefined macro and print a
warning message if the compiler defines it. The warning is not printed
with '--enable-debug' specified as we assume users know what they are
doing. :)

Signed-off-by: Kang-Che Sung <[email protected]>

configure.ac

@@ -758,6 +758,22 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([debug],
  [enable_debug=no])
 if test "x$enable_debug" != xyes; then
  AM_CPPFLAGS="$AM_CPPFLAGS -DNDEBUG"
+
+ AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([
+ AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
+#ifdef __SUPPORT_SNAN__
+#error "signaling NaN support not recommended"
+#endif
+ ]])],
+ :,
+ [warning_msg="signaling NaN support is enabled; not recommended for htop"
+ case "$CC" in
+ *gcc*)
+ warning_msg="$warning_msg (use '-fno-signaling-nans' compiler flag to disable)"
+ ;;
+ esac
+ AC_MSG_WARN([$warning_msg])
+ ])
 else
  AM_CPPFLAGS="$AM_CPPFLAGS -ggdb3"
 fi