Bug#119844: gcc: __WORDSIZE definition missing

["John R. Daily" <jdaily@progeny.com>]

Package: gcc
Version: 2:2.96-10
Severity: normal

If glibc is to be believed (/usr/include/limits.h), gcc should
be defining __WORDSIZE.

gcc versions 2.95, 2.96, and 3.0 have been tested; none of
them seem to define it.

As it is, there doesn't seem to be a good way to distinguish
32 bit from 64 bit platforms at compile time.

Is this a misunderstanding on glibc's part? Where should
__WORDSIZE be defined, and what alternatives exist?

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux butthead 2.4.9-itanium-smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 20:48:35 MDT 2001 ia64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=

Versions of packages gcc depends on:
ii  cpp                           2:2.96-10  The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  cpp-2.96                      1:2.96-5   The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  gcc-2.96                      1:2.96-5   The GNU C compiler.