* Jonathan Wakely via Gcc:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 15:49, Philip R Brenan via Gcc <gcc@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,
Florian
