Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I recall having to deal with this > issue on fairly recent systems in the 1996-98 timeframe so 'int' > didn't just go away because ANSI C said so. Yes, absolutely; it took quite some time for those old systems to die off. But they have been dead for at least a decade. It's time to move on. > I am saddened that it seems that Paul has gone to the dark side ... When the majority of bug reports about a feature X are from maintainers of computer museums, then the feature is no longer of practical interest. Signal handlers returning 'int' long ago went into the computer-museum category. Here's another, slightly less-conservative rule that I find useful: when the original supplier of an operating system version no longer supports that version, then we don't need to support it either. For example, we no longer need to support Solaris 2.6 and earlier, we can stop supporting Solaris 7 on August 15, and we can stop supporting Solaris 8 on March 31, 2012. See <http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml>. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
