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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2024-04-30 11:48:31 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2024-04-30 11:49:16 -0700
commit02f232c67156da2d353c986fd77d408db5084f79 (patch)
tree37a4fb5695959046f5a18700ac87eb6f8d8c586c
parent76ac2c1d735a3cc1646b452d38633ec1c6a3ce0d (diff)
downloadautoconf-upstream-master.tar.gz
Improve VLA wording in NEWSupstream-master
Thanks to a suggestion by Werner Lemberg in: https://lists.gnu.org/r/autoconf/2024-04/msg00009.html
-rw-r--r--NEWS10
1 files 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]