> > I DO know that in the
> > current source code of BSD m4, "changequote(,)" behaves
> > like "changequote" (ie. sets the quotes to ` and ') rather than
> > the GNU behavior of disabling quotes.
>
> This sounds like a POSIX [1] violation of BSD m4.
Nope. It was at my request that the Austin gro
Eric Blake wrote:
> One more misfeature of changequote - changequote(,) is not
> portable. The BSD folks have been trying to get their m4
> implementation to copy enough of GNU m4's traits that it
> can be used in place of GNU M4 to support autoconf.
But we don't need to care about that. We aren'
Eric Blake wrote:
> there is too much risk that a user
> will use those characters in his local encoding, but not the
> byte sequence that M4 recognizes based on a different
> encoding of those characters.
Indeed. I thought this problem could be solved by having every file declare
its quote charac
> > If you prefer some other quoting style (e.g., maximal quoting or
> > quadrigraphs, but rather not changequote)
>
> There is an important property that programming languages should have:
> the ability to copy and paste a piece of code from one place to another.
>
> [[...]] doesn't have this pr
> > The complexity stems from both the m4 language choice and
> > the brevity of the chosen quote markers. The language issue
> > is that macros inherit the quote markers from their invocation
> > environment. Nothing you can do about that. (Too late to
> > choose another language without starti
Bruce Korb wrote (in a discussion about how to avoid m4 underquotation bugs):
> The complexity stems from both the m4 language choice and
> the brevity of the chosen quote markers. The language issue
> is that macros inherit the quote markers from their invocation
> environment. Nothing you can d
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:34:45PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > OK to apply?
> Please do apply them.
Thanks, I did applied the unlink*.m4 changes.
* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:18:11AM CET:
>
> There is an important property th
Hello Ralf,
Three bugs found by simple inspection! Wow!
> 2007-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * m4/intdiv0.m4 (gt_INTDIV0): Fix m4 quoting bug.
Thanks; I'm applying an equivalent patch.
> If you prefer some other quoting style (e.g., maximal quoting or
> quadrigraphs, bu
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> And frankly, I don't know a good way to make things easier here.
> changequote IMHO isn't one: as soon as you *know* where you would
> have needed it, you can also just use another quoting style.
The complexity stems from both the m4 language choice and
the brevity of the
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Bruno, Jim, Paul, all,
>
> I found a couple more underquotations. Here's a proposed quick patch.
> If you prefer some other quoting style (e.g., maximal quoting or
> quadrigraphs, but rather not changequote), I'd be happy to redo.
> OK to apply?
Hello Bruce,
* Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:50:56PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > -alpha* | i[34567]86 | m68k | s390*)
> > +alpha* | i[[34567]]86 | m68k | s390*)
> I figure that if it is this difficult to get it right, then
> it is too difficult and it i
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Bruno, Jim, Paul, all,
> Index: m4/intdiv0.m4
> ===
> RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/m4/intdiv0.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -u -r1.4 intdiv0.m4
> --- m4/intdiv0.m4 24 Feb 2005 20:12:45 -0
Hello Bruno, Jim, Paul, all,
I found a couple more underquotations. Here's a proposed quick patch.
If you prefer some other quoting style (e.g., maximal quoting or
quadrigraphs, but rather not changequote), I'd be happy to redo.
OK to apply?
Cheers,
Ralf
2007-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PRO
13 matches
Mail list logo
