On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, Florian Weimer via Gcc wrote:
> It was introduced with:
>
> commit 1c5dd43ff7c78bbdba5e89a6cb16a3e50e1abff9
> Author: Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>
> 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.
Indeed. That predates wwwdocs commit
3aa4a88304bca24e30e2cd92c745f2ff296fee0d (7 Nov 2001) where I added some
notes on Texinfo usage to codingconventions.html, including the
distinction between @dots{} and literal "...".
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Joseph S. Myers
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