On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 14:53, Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@arm.com> wrote: > > Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <g...@gcc.gnu.org> writes: > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 11:28, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> > >> * Jonathan Wakely via Gcc: > >> > >> > On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 15:49, Philip R Brenan via Gcc <g...@gcc.gnu.org> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi *GCC*: > >> >> > >> >> On page: > >> >> > >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Variadic-Macros.html#Variadic-Macros > >> >> > >> >> you say: > >> >> > >> >> #define eprintf(args…) fprintf (stderr, args) > >> >> > >> >> but do you in fact mean: > >> >> > >> >> #define eprintf(args...) fprintf (stderr, args) > >> >> > >> >> The first variant produces: > >> >> > >> >> error: expected ',' or ')', found "…" > >> >> > >> >> the second variant works well using GCC10.2 on Kubuntu 18.04. > >> > > >> > Yes, the texinfo source uses @dots which gets turned into … in > >> > the HTML, which isn't necessarily displayed as three separate dots in > >> > the browser. I don't know why @dots is used rather than ... > >> > >> It was introduced with: > >> > >> commit 1c5dd43ff7c78bbdba5e89a6cb16a3e50e1abff9 > >> Author: Zack Weinberg <za...@stanford.edu> > >> Date: Fri Jun 15 17:57:48 2001 +0000 > >> > >> cpp.texi: Formatting corrections. > >> > >> * doc/cpp.texi: Formatting corrections. > >> Correct buggy example of use of __GNUC__ etc. > >> Clarify $ in identifiers. > >> * doc/cpp.1: Regenerate. > >> > >> From-SVN: r43404 > >> > >> Some of these changes were clearly correct, but the ... C token should > >> have not been changed. Looks like a simple oversight to me. > > > > Thanks for the archaeology, Florian. > > > > Here's a patch to replace those inappropriate @dots macros with the > > literal ... token. > > > > Tested by building the docs and inspecting the .info and .html output. > > > > OK for trunk? > > OK, thanks. (And for branches too.)
Pushed to all branches, thanks.
