Extend compat/README

Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>

diff --git a/compat/README b/compat/README
index 38e2e146b07e0d1582677fde256e4a3a8fe1c47d..12aacf42772c3c2986f955dd17fe26b4f04bab48 100644 (file)
--- a/compat/README
+++ b/compat/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 notmuch/compat
 
 notmuch/compat
 

-This directory consists of two things:
+This directory consists of three things:

 
 1. Small programs used by the notmuch configure script to test for the
    availability of certain system features, (library functions, etc.).
 
 1. Small programs used by the notmuch configure script to test for the
    availability of certain system features, (library functions, etc.).


@@ -14,3 +14,8 @@ This directory consists of two things:
 
    The compilation of these files is made conditional on the output of
    the test programs from [1].
 
    The compilation of these files is made conditional on the output of
    the test programs from [1].

+
+3. Macro definitions abstracting compiler differences (e.g. function
+   attributes).
+
+   For example: function-attributes.h