On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 09:45 -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > GNU Make's manual uses the word "evaluate" for all compile-time > calculations
My suspicion is that there are various places in the manual where the terms "expand" and "evaluate" are not used exactly correctly. They might even be used interchangeably in some parts. I have not done a complete inventory of the entire manual looking for this confusion.