Re: state of MSVC patches for HEAD

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:43:16PM CEST:
> 
> CRAP! After fixing some problems with this patch (it doesn't work
> for a number of reasons, so don't waste your time trying) I have
> realized that sed is not the correct tool for this pipe. It is
> best written in some other language. Which languages can I select
> from? awk?

Before answering that:  I don't understand what exactly you are
trying to achieve.

> More context than one row plus one hold buffer is needed to
> determine if a symbol is global...
> 
> (Symbols marked SECTn in the above snippet should be mapped to the
>  nth section line)

Can you describe the format a bit more precisely (pointer to docs?)?
Then we might be able to come up with something that works better.

Can section lines be repeated?  Are section lines guaranteed to come
before their contents (or can we do separate calls to only get at
one or the other output?)

awk is a possible candidate, but please try to stay within POSIX
features.

Cheers,
Ralf