Re: 91-c++-exit-decl.patch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 25, 2000, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!
>> You and Alexandre are good judges.  Please, I'm soon leaving, may
>> I ask for a service?  Could you adjust the patch to what emerges from
>> your debating, then snapshot 2.49c and put it on alpha, and send
>> an announcement?  Don't hesitate removing the old betas.  And
>> move configure.in to 2.49d.

> I'm leaving too :-(

And I've already left :-)

> Instead of checking just for exit() it should probably check whether
> declarations are required (by compiling
> be_damned_if_your_headers_declare_this();), and then check for a
> header for the function from a given list.

And the macro could also supply a fallback declaration, that might
even be added to config.h.  AC_CHECK_PROTO?  But this can wait for the
next release :-)

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