-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Friesenhahn on 6/6/2008 8:42 PM: | On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Eric Blake wrote: | |> Any objections to making AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete (with the |> recommendation of |> replacing RETSIGTYPE with void in old code), since even C89 requires |> signal |> handlers to return void? | | Why are you interested in making this change? Is the macro causing | problems? Try as we might, we can't change history and so this macro | may be useful on many systems which are still in use. Marking a macro obsolete does not mean that existing projects have to remove it, nor that we will break its behavior. Rather, it means that new projects don't have to worry about needing to use it (if you assume C89, which most projects do these days, then AC_TYPE_SIGNAL is a waste of ./configure time). In other words, it can simplify maintenance to realize this is no longer a relevant porting concern. My motivating example is the gnulib module c-stack, which blindly assumes that signal handlers with void return types can be installed rather than worrying about using RETSIGTYPE; no one has complained about being unable to compile it on their platforms. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhKBdkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYARLgCgsiA0vNQ75KJNlgQQsxEtfZpO DnMAn0ie7IRZd3M007/jZpkm5a7/8Lx/ =3p+q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
