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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-03-27 18:10:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-03-27 18:12:47 -0700 |
| commit | 5ffc09fca39de051537fbebd7c6c33d5255a520f (patch) | |
| tree | 58e74e86d0b04ab5875bd006b22db169ff40564a | |
| parent | 2e25d42eb2f0601f7e780a622191f21a8c09aa48 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-5ffc09fca39de051537fbebd7c6c33d5255a520f.tar.gz | |
mention prototypes more prominently in NEWS
* NEWS: Mention the function prototype issue early.
(From a suggestion by Zack Weinberg.)
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@@ -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. |