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

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:32 PM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
> On 2020-08-05 07:24:38 -0700, 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.
>
> With MPFR, it works after applying this patch.

+1 from me regardless -- we should be phasing out the use of pre-ANSI
constructs in autoconf's generated C snippets, and this is as good a
place to start as any.

zw