Re: va_copy error [Was Re: Make Problem - parse error before "const"]

[Joseph Maxwell]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On 5 May 2008, at 10:35, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Gary V. Vaughan <necro.no <at> mac.com> writes:
> >
> > > However, since m4-1.4.11 has 3 authors, you could work around it by 
> > > rewriting
> > the version_etc function to accept author names explicitly:
> >
> > Huh?
> >
> > $ m4-1.4.11 --version | tail -n1
> > Written by Rene' Seindal.
>
> Oops.  Looking in the wrong directory.  *blush*
>
> > But your comments about rewriting version_etc, taking one explicit 
> > author
> > instead of three, might work.  However, there are other uses of 
> > va_arg in the
> > m4 source, so I'm not sure that a rewrite would help.
>
> Indeed.  I didn't bother to check whether the other instances could be
> "unrolled" by hand too.  Quite right that papering over the cracks 
> probabl
> won't work here though.
>
> >  It would be interesting
> > to see version-etc.c after pre-processing.
>
>
> Yes indeed!  Joseph please attach version-etc.pp.gz as generated by the
> following to your next reply:
>
> $ cd src
> $ gcc  -I. -E version-etc.c | gzip -c > version-etc.pp.gz
>
> Cheers,
>     Gary
I am taking 'src' as been /usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11/lib , the 
location of my version-etc.c files as there is no   version-etc.c in  my 
/usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11/src directory. The gzipped file is 
attached.

Thanks!

--  Joe  --

version-etc.pp.gz
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