On 01/11/2017 05:03 AM, Tom Baker wrote: > While in emacs I called up the m4 info file, and read up to section > "1.4 Using this manual". > > There I saw: > > <begin snip> > > As each of the predefined macros in 'm4' is described, a prototype > call of the macro will be shown, giving descriptive names to the > arguments, e.g., > > -- Composite: example (STRING, [COUNT = '1'] > [ARGUMENT]This is a sample prototype. There is not really a macro > named 'example', but this documents that if there were, it would be > > <end snip> > > What is "[ARGUMENT]"? I assumed it was the start of that text.
Thanks for the report. This was fixed here: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/commit/?h=branch-1.4&id=f5ef8cf > m4 manual is: > manual (22 September 2013) for GNU M4 (version 1.4.17) The just-released 1.4.18 has the fix, where I see: > arguments, e.g., > > -- Composite: example (STRING, [COUNT = '1'], [ARGUMENT]...) > This is a sample prototype. There is not really a macro named > 'example', but this documents that if there were, it would be a in the same section of the info manual. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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