On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Geng) wrote:
> ...
> > file you extracted above is from the wc command. You can watch the genparse
> > generated parser for it from 
> > http://genparse.sourceforge.net/examples/wc_clp.c.
> 
> It's nice to see the continuing improvements.
> 
> I noticed that you transformed the uses of fputs in wc's usage
> function into uses of fprintf in your generated wc_clp.c.
> That is probably ok in most cases, but in some (with a string
> containing "%"), it's not -- unless you escape them.
> Besides, I switched from fprintf to fputs for a reason: so that
> I (and translators) don't have to worry about such escaping.
> In addition, I don't mind that fputs is lighter-weight than fprintf.

Genparse could issue fputs () calls whenever the printed string doesn't contain
arguments. I will probably change this in one of the next genparse releases.

Michael


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