Re: Enhancement request

[Dave Yost]

At 1:23 PM +0000 2004-03-26, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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>Dave Yost wrote:
>| The changecom macro is not enough.  To parse C, we need 2 kinds of
>comments.. /* */ amnd //.  Actually, if anyone does work on this, it would be
>good to be able to define nesting comments as well.
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>| I think it would be useful if you extended changecom to be
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>|   changecom(opt start1, opt end1, opt isNesting, ...)
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>Now that the module api for CVS m4 has stabilized somewhat, why don't you have
>a go at writing a C module to implement the semantics you need?
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>I suspect that what you want reaches deeper into the internals of m4 than the
>module api allows, but if you find anything of that nature do post back here,
>and I'll try and work something out before 2.0 is set free.

Thanks for the invite, but my use of m4 was fleeting, and the macro set I wrote 
is able to limp along with only the /* */ comments.

I'm using m4 as an alternative preprocessor to gcc -E because gcc -E mucks with 
spacing, and m4 does not.

Thanks

Dave