On 25 May 2015 at 19:44, Jens Staal wrote:
> It did however not work (I guess the "..." and "##" are to blame?) so now
> I wonder how/if it is possible with the posix compiler on plan9?
It doesn't understand the named ... variant, which I suppose is more recent
tinkering. Use the older __VA_ARG
Kurt H Maier wrote:
> I mangled some webshit earlier today on that server (bad timing I guess).
> Correct link to the hg repo is https://code.9front.org/hg/awk
This appears to be based on Brian Kernighan's awk from sometime in 1999
and not written from scratch.
There have been many fixes to BWK
> Have the MKS sources ever been released?
I don't believe so. I think they were the basis for z/OS, which is
a POSIX environment on top of IBM's MVS.
The MKS awk made its way out into the world via Solaris, which for some
reason chose that code base, instead of a more recent version of BWK's
awk
> There have been many fixes to BWK's code since then. If you're going to
> start over, it should be done from his current code, available from
> his Princeton home page.
9atom's awk has been updated with bwk's recent source. it also has a fix for
the problem
sometimes seen with plan 9 installs
On Sun, 31 May 2015 11:14:42 +0100
Charles Forsyth wrote:
> It doesn't understand the named ... variant, which I suppose is more recent
> tinkering. Use the older __VA_ARGS__.
IIRC, the named variant is older, but it's also a GNU extension.
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Ori Bernstein
On 31 May 2015 at 17:31, Ori Bernstein wrote:
> > It doesn't understand the named ... variant, which I suppose is more
> recent
> > tinkering. Use the older __VA_ARGS__.
>
> IIRC, the named variant is older, but it's also a GNU extension.
I've looked at the C99 and C1x standards and both descri
