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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-03-31 10:37:57 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-03-31 10:47:49 -0700
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* NEWS: Tighten up wording.
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@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ 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
+ This 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.