Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

[Jamie Lokier]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:04 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote:
> > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words
> > 
> > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81.
> 
> I agree: I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit, with GNU make 3.81-6 installed
> as well, and I don't see the OP's incorrect behavior.
> 
> I get messages produced for all the words, just like Martin.

Note that messages for all the words is also a bug.

There should be no error messages.

Because it is so unusually finicky, depending on the exact text (not
just the length of the words), I wouldn't be surprised if it depends
on the exact compiled binary, or maybe even finer details like memory
layout.

-- Jamie