Thanks for the suggestion; I installed the attached. Part of the idea is
for the first line to be a complete summary.From 02f232c67156da2d353c986fd77d408db5084f79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:48:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve VLA wording in NEWS
Thanks to a suggestion by Werner Lemberg in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/autoconf/2024-04/msg00009.html
---
NEWS | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 60c6dcdd..be7cb8ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
alignas, alignof, bool, constexpr, false, nullptr, static_assert,
thread_local, typeof, typeof_unqual, true.
-*** AC_PROG_CC no longer tests for VLAs, or whether __STDC__ is defined.
- This ports better to MSVC, which does not support variable length
- arrays and does not define __STDC__. Although C99 requires VLAs,
- they are optional in C11 and later. Programs can use AC_C_VARARRAYS
- and __STDC_NO_VLA__ to use VLAs if available.
+*** AC_PROG_CC no longer checks __STDC__ or variable length arrays (VLAs).
+ This ports better to MSVC, which does not define __STDC__ and does
+ not support VLAs. Although C99 requires VLAs, they are optional in
+ C11 and later. Programs can use AC_C_VARARRAYS and __STDC_NO_VLA__
+ to use VLAs if available.
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.72 (2023-12-22) [release]
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