Subject: bug#15880: Compute C declarations for DEFSYMs automatically.

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:00:17 -0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Is this use of "{..}" in shell commands portable enough?

It should be.  It worked in the 7th Edition Unix Bourne shell
(1979), and I don't know of any plausible shell where it
doesn't work.  There are many uses of it in 'configure'
already.