Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

> Any objections to making AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete (with the recommendation of
> replacing RETSIGTYPE with void in old code), since even C89 requires signal
> handlers to return void?

Why are you interested in making this change?  Is the macro causing 
problems?  Try as we might, we can't change history and so this macro 
may be useful on many systems which are still in use.

Bob
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