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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-07-23 21:18:09 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-07-23 21:18:09 (GMT)
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Removed all instances of RETSIGTYPE from the source code: signal
handlers "return void", according to ANSI C. Removed the new Py_RETURN_FROM_SIGNAL_HANDLER macro. Left RETSIGTYPE in the config stuff, because it's not clear to me that others aren't relying on it (e.g., extension modules).
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@@ -652,9 +652,8 @@ has already been done for you). A good start is to copy the file
config.h.in to config.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as
1 only if the corresponding feature is present and can be left alone
-otherwise; however RETSIGTYPE must always be defined, either as int or
-as void, and the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant of
-int if they need to be defined at all.
+otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant
+of int if they need to be defined at all.