Autoconf 2.59d (released in 2006) [1] started promoting several macros
as not relevant for newer systems anymore, including the `AC_HEADER_STDC`.
This macro checks if given system has C89 compliant header files such
as `<string.h>`, `<stdlib.h>`, `<stdarg.h>`, `<float.h>`,... and defines
the `STDC_HEADERS` symbol [2]. Case is that current systems should be
well supported with at least C89 standard headers [3].
Given headers are still additionally checked with the `AC_PROG_CC`
macro, yet not needed anyway.
Additionally, the HAVE_MEMCPY check has been removed. The memcpy
function is standardized by C89 and later.
Refs:
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/autoconf.html
[3] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#4.1.2
Oniguruma does not consistently perform this validation itself (at least
on older versions), so make sure we check pattern encoding validity on the
PHP side.
This patch follows previous license year ranges updates. With new
approach source code files now have simplified headers with license
information without year ranges.
I'm removing the argument entirely here, but we might want to change
this to passing null or and empty array instead, if the impact of
dropping it entirely turns out to be too large.
This was deprecated as part of https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_2
as a doc-only deprecation.
This patch removes the so called local variables defined per
file basis for certain editors to properly show tab width, and
similar settings. These are mainly used by Vim and Emacs editors
yet with recent changes the once working definitions don't work
anymore in Vim without custom plugins or additional configuration.
Neither are these settings synced across the PHP code base.
A simpler and better approach is EditorConfig and fixing code
using some code style fixing tools in the future instead.
This patch also removes the so called modelines for Vim. Modelines
allow Vim editor specifically to set some editor configuration such as
syntax highlighting, indentation style and tab width to be set in the
first line or the last 5 lines per file basis. Since the php test
files have syntax highlighting already set in most editors properly and
EditorConfig takes care of the indentation settings, this patch removes
these as well for the Vim 6.0 and newer versions.
With the removal of local variables for certain editors such as
Emacs and Vim, the footer is also probably not needed anymore when
creating extensions using ext_skel.php script.
Additionally, Vim modelines for setting php syntax and some editor
settings has been removed from some *.phpt files. All these are
mostly not relevant for phpt files neither work properly in the
middle of the file.
I'm counting this towards the non-string needle deprecation from
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_3. I wasn't aware that
mb_ereg_replace() is also affected by this issue. It's even more
ridiculous than usual here, because the integer is interpreted as
an ASCII codepoint, even though these are supposed to be multibyte
functions :(
Dmitry Stogov