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Re: patch for many C- and M4-related quoting problems in Bison
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: patch for many C- and M4-related quoting problems in Bison |
Date: |
12 Nov 2002 10:45:38 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
| I ran into several problems that I couldn't see how to handle in M4
| (e.g., file names containing commas), so I stopped using M4 to
| process tricky things like file names.
Yes, very low level should be done via C code. Some day we ought to
release GNU M4 1.5 and have modules to do this. A quotearg modules
would be most useful.
| * data/c.m4 (b4_copyright): Omit file name from comment, since
| the file name could contain "*/".
Do you really think this can happen? Do you really think Bison is
more useful without this micro-feature (grammar file name) than with?