Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-04 Thread Douglas McIlroy
I'm delighted to receive the progress report, and especially the mention of tail recursion. Am I right in guessing that all tail calls will benefit, so that n levels of tail recursion will use O(1) stack space rather than O(n)? Doug McIlroy On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM Eric Blake wrote: > > On

Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-04 Thread Eric Blake
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 03:52:54AM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > I'm delighted to receive the progress report, and especially the > mention of tail recursion. Am I right in guessing that all tail calls > will benefit, so that n levels of tail recursion will use O(1) stack > space rather than O(n)

Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-04 Thread Eric Blake
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:35:36PM -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for the GNU m4 macro processor wrote: > > This has already been reported and it is known that the m4-1.4.19 will > no longer build out of the box on a recent Linux machine. Certainly not > with any recent GCC and perfectly sa

Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-04 Thread Collin Funk
Hi Eric, Eric Blake writes: > I would love some assistance in the effort, even if it is as simple as > curating a list of ALL commits to branch-1.4 and branch-1.6 since the > two REALLY diverged (warning: back then, I was not using 'git > cherry-pick -x' to identify when a patch was applied to o