Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-10-16T19:49:43-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > When the DEC Alpha, Cray, and PA-RISC came along, a lot of C > programmers who'd been supremely confident of the, shall we say, > well-established behavior of their code were quickly disabused of some > deluded notions. Th

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Dave, At 2024-10-16T19:51:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > During Werner's tenure, I looked into > (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2018-11/msg00014.html) getting the list > software to automatically reply to any non-savannah emails, directing > the sender to the bug tracker or the discussion list in

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread Dave Kemper
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:01 PM joerg van den hoff wrote: > I wrote to groff-bug, I wanted (and want) to keep the response on that list. > that's my decision, not > yours. Just so you know, bug-groff (like groff-commit) is not intended to be a discussion list; it exists to lets users see all ema

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Dave, At 2024-10-16T18:39:01-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 4:13 PM G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > On many machine architectures, in the C language, a pointer occupies > > the same number of bits as an `int` variable. Clearly we can assume > > that they're always equival

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 17.10.24 01:39, Dave Kemper wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:01 PM joerg van den hoff wrote: I now double-checked: the manual seems to indicate that w/o preceding mk, rt needs an argument (distance from page top). if it _really_ does the line would have to read `.rt 0'. but doing this d

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 16.10.24 23:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [replying only to the lists, since you're not honoring the Reply-To header anyway] I wrote to groff-bug, I wanted (and want) to keep the response on that list. that's my decision, not yours. Hi Joerg, At 2024-10-16T22:01:02+0200, joerg van

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread Dave Kemper
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:01 PM joerg van den hoff wrote: > I now double-checked: the manual seems to indicate that w/o preceding mk, rt > needs an argument > (distance from page top). if it _really_ does the line would have to read > `.rt 0'. but doing this > does not change behaviour neither f

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[replying only to the lists, since you're not honoring the Reply-To header anyway] Hi Joerg, At 2024-10-16T22:01:02+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > > At 2024-10-16T13:30:23+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > > > I ran into this problem several months ago but did never suspect > > > it would be r

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 16.10.24 19:38, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [CCing groff@gnu and directing Reply-To there] Hi Joerg, hi branden, At 2024-10-16T13:30:23+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: I ran into this problem several months ago but did never suspect it would be related to a preceding update to 1.23 (w

Re: two further apparent regressions in 1.23 in s.tmac

2024-10-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[CCing groff@gnu and directing Reply-To there] Hi Joerg, At 2024-10-16T13:30:23+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > I ran into this problem several months ago but did never suspect it > would be related to a preceding update to 1.23 (which happened as part > of general package update run so I did n