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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2024-04-30 11:48:31 -0700 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2024-04-30 11:49:16 -0700 |
commit | 02f232c67156da2d353c986fd77d408db5084f79 (patch) | |
tree | 37a4fb5695959046f5a18700ac87eb6f8d8c586c | |
parent | 76ac2c1d735a3cc1646b452d38633ec1c6a3ce0d (diff) | |
download | autoconf-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-- | NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -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] |