Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 3/27/23 10:16, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Compatibility with compilers that reject unprototyped function declarations should maybe get a more prominent NEWS entry. I gave that a shot by installing the attached.
0001-mention-prototypes-more-prominently-in-NEWS.patch
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From 5ffc09fca39de051537fbebd7c6c33d5255a520f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:10:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mention prototypes more prominently in NEWS * NEWS: Mention the function prototype issue early. (From a suggestion by Zack Weinberg.) --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cf01ee21..d64648c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. ** Backward incompatibilities +*** AC_CHECK_FUNC and similar macros now use function prototypes. + AC_CHECK_FUNC and and similar macros now use C declarations with + function prototypes, a feature introduced in C89. The new approach + should work better with C23, which removed the non-prototyped K&R + style that AC_CHECK_FUNC previously used. However, this change + means Autoconf no longer supports pre-1989 C compilers, as they do + not support function prototypes. + *** Autoconf now requires perl 5.10 (2007) or later. Generated 'configure' scripts continue to run without perl. -- 2.39.2