Re: [PATCH] AC_LANG_INT_SAVE: Modernize function declarators (C89 and above).

[Eric Blake]

On 8/5/20 9:24 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 8/5/20 3:59 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > This allows one to avoid a failure with AC_COMPUTE_INT when using
> > the -Werror=old-style-definition GCC option.
>
> Why is this needed? Telling 'configure' to use -Werror has never worked, 
> for lots of other reasons.

It may not be needed on that front, but at the same time, I don't see it 
as hurting.  We can't guarantee that all configure snippets compile 
warning-free, but where a warning is easy to avoid, we might as well do it.

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