staticforward bites the dust.

The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
initialized structure.  Standard C allows the forward declaration with
static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers.  (In
fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)

I'm leaving staticforward and statichere defined in object.h as
static.  This is only for backwards compatibility with C extensions
that might still use it.

XXX I haven't updated the documentation.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 59 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 48d4cd4..0979bfd 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 1.327 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 1.328 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53.
 #
@@ -13774,64 +13774,6 @@ echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
 fi
 rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for bad static forward" >&5
-echo $ECHO_N "checking for bad static forward... $ECHO_C" >&6
-if test "${ac_cv_bad_static_forward+set}" = set; then
-  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
-else
-  if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
-  ac_cv_bad_static_forward=no
-else
-  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-#line $LINENO "configure"
-#include "confdefs.h"
-
-struct s { int a; int b; };
-static struct s foo;
-int foobar() {
- static int random;
- random = (int) &foo;
- return random;
-}
-static struct s foo = { 1, 2 };
-main() {
- exit(!((int)&foo == foobar()));
-}
-_ACEOF
-rm -f conftest$ac_exeext
-if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_link) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); } && { ac_try='./conftest$ac_exeext'
-  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
-  ac_cv_bad_static_forward=no
-else
-  echo "$as_me: program exited with status $ac_status" >&5
-echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
-cat conftest.$ac_ext >&5
-( exit $ac_status )
-ac_cv_bad_static_forward=yes
-fi
-rm -f core core.* *.core conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-fi
-
-echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_bad_static_forward" >&5
-echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_bad_static_forward" >&6
-if test "$ac_cv_bad_static_forward" = yes
-then
-
-cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
-#define BAD_STATIC_FORWARD 1
-_ACEOF
-
-fi
-
 va_list_is_array=no
 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether va_list is an array" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking whether va_list is an array... $ECHO_C" >&6