Re: gettimeofday macro (was Re: A macro to check for data type alignment)

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <address@hidden> writes:

Peter> So the consequence is that no modern program can expect the
Peter> second argument to do anything useful.  So a replacement isn't
Peter> of real utility.  The only thing you really need is to fix the
Peter> prototype for some old systems.

Peter> Maybe you need a third class of macros, AC_FIX_FUNC. ;-)

Which is AC_REPLACE_FUNC.  If this function can be replaced, then we
walk that way.  Autoconf tries to promote the POSIX environment, not
the `common subset'.