Re: C23 support in Autoconf

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, at 2:43 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2024-04-30 11:24, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> the biggest source of problems was not function prototypes,
>> but the change of "true" and "false" to no longer be acceptable lvalues,
>> and of "bool" to be a builtin type.
>
> Thanks for mentioning that, as I hadn't run into that problem. I 
> installed the attached.

Because of this class of problems, I think we ought to prioritize giving
package authors a way to control which edition of the C standard AC_PROG_CC
will select, rather than just always using the most recent one we know about.

zw