Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?

[Harlan Stenn]

Paul wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >  2008-06-09  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
> >  
> > +   Mark AC_TYPE_SIGNAL as obsolete.
> 
> Thanks for doing this; it makes sense to me.  Signal handlers
> returning 'int' became obsolete on all C platforms as of the first C
> standard in 1989.  In practice they were obsolete even before that.
> This is beyond even Autoconf's broad porting horizon.

I think you are dead wrong on your last point, Paul.

I 'deprecated' K&R C support for NTP not all that long ago.

And the only reason I have not been more vocal on this thread is because
ntp may be stuck with autoconf 2.61 for the long-haul because of GPLv3
concerns, so changes to autoconf after 2.61 may not matter to NTP.

H