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Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete? |
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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:25:09 -0600 |
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According to Bob Friesenhahn on 6/7/2008 10:01 AM:
|> 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
|
| My own project does include support for signal handlers which return
| 'int'. It is using this macro. Without this provision, the code would
| fail to compile on some systems due to prototype mismatch.
Again, obsoleting a macro does not mean that existing code that relied on
the macro will break. As long as you don't delete AC_TYPE_SIGNAL from
your configure.ac, your project will not be impacted (other than the fact
that if you run 'autoconf -Wall' you will get a new warning, mentioning
that the macro is obsolete when porting to modern targets).
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Eric Blake, 2008/06/06
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- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Eric Blake, 2008/06/09
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Paul Eggert, 2008/06/09
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Harlan Stenn, 2008/06/09
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Eric Blake, 2008/06/09
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/06/09
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Paul Eggert, 2008/06/10
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Tim Post, 2008/06/10
- Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/06/10
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