Remove the CMake/Scons compile-time check for IEEE 754 compliance

Now handled by a static assertion.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -63,19 +63,6 @@ if(NOT CXX_STD)
 	set(CXX_STD "14")
 endif()
 
-if(NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
-	try_run(IEEE754_TEST_RETURN_CODE IEEE754_TEST_COMPILED ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/compile_time_tests/ieee_754.cpp
-		CMAKE_FLAGS "-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=${CXX_STD}" COMPILE_OUTPUT_VARIABLE IEEE754_TEST_COMPILE_OUTPUT)
-	if(NOT IEEE754_TEST_COMPILED)
-		message(WARNING "Failed to compile the IEEE 754 test. Skipping it.")
-		message(${IEEE754_TEST_COMPILE_OUTPUT})
-	elseif(NOT IEEE754_TEST_RETURN_CODE EQUAL 0)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR "Your platform does not represent floating point numbers in the IEEE 754 format.")
-	endif()
-else()
-	message(WARNING "You are cross-compiling. Skipping IEEE 754 test.")
-endif()
-
 if(ENABLE_GAME OR ENABLE_TESTS)
 	find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED)
 	find_package(GLEW REQUIRED)

SConstruct

@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ def Warning(message):
 
 from metasconf import init_metasconf
 configure_args = dict(
-    custom_tests = init_metasconf(env, ["ieee_754", "cplusplus", "python_devel", "sdl", "boost", "cairo", "pango", "pkgconfig", "gettext_tool", "lua", "gl"]),
+    custom_tests = init_metasconf(env, ["cplusplus", "python_devel", "sdl", "boost", "cairo", "pango", "pkgconfig", "gettext_tool", "lua", "gl"]),
     config_h = "$build_dir/config.h",
     log_file="$build_dir/config.log", conf_dir="$build_dir/sconf_temp")
 
@@ -338,13 +338,6 @@ if env["prereqs"]:
     conf.CheckLib("m")
     conf.CheckFunc("round")
 
-    def CheckIEEE754(conf):
-        if not env["host"]:
-            return conf.CheckIEEE754()
-        else:
-            Warning("You are cross-compiling. Skipping IEEE 754 test.")
-            return True
-
     def CheckAsio(conf):
         if env["PLATFORM"] == 'win32':
             conf.env.Append(LIBS = ["libws2_32"])
@@ -362,7 +355,6 @@ if env["prereqs"]:
             conf.CheckSDL("SDL2_image", header_file = "SDL_image")
 
     have_server_prereqs = (\
-        CheckIEEE754(conf) & \
         conf.CheckCPlusPlus(gcc_version = "4.8") & \
         conf.CheckLib("libcrypto") & \
         conf.CheckBoost("iostreams", require_version = boost_version) & \

scons/ieee_754.py

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-import os.path
-from SCons.Script import File
-
-def CheckIEEE754(context):
-    context.Message("Checking if floating point numbers are in the IEEE 754 format... ")
-    test_file = File(os.path.join("src", "compile_time_tests", "ieee_754.cpp")).get_contents().decode("utf-8")
-    ret, _ = context.TryRun(test_file, ".cpp")
-    context.Result(ret)
-    return ret
-
-config_checks = { "CheckIEEE754" : CheckIEEE754 }

src/compile_time_tests/ieee_754.cpp

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#include <limits>
-
-// This test verifies that floating point numbers are represented in the IEEE 754 format.
-// Wesnoth requires that.
-int main()
-{
-	// Return code zero means success.
-	// Thus, check that the bit representation is *not* what IEEE 754 specifies.
-	bool match = std::numeric_limits<double>::is_iec559;
-	return !match;
-}