Re: [vile] vile-9.7m.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:48:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >  patch by Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> >  created  Mon Mar 23 00:44:07 UTC 2009
> >  [...]
> >         + add new functions &bchanged, &fchanged and state variables $bchanged
> >           (same as $modified) and $fchanged to make it simpler for scripts to
> >           check if buffer/file timestamps differ (prompted by Paul Van Tilburg).
>
> Great!  Works like a charm.  I have a working macro now, which works if you edit
> one file.  I'll see about multiple files soon.

good. I tested the functions with simple ad hoc scripts, didn't get
into much depth there.  (Coloring "show-variables" took time...)

> By the while, while building/packaging I saw the following warning occuring
> per filter:
>
> echo '#include <flt_defs.h>' > txt-filt.c
> flex -Ptxt_ -t ../../../filters/txt-filt.l >> txt-filt.c
> gcc -c -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../../../filters -I../../.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
> -I../../../filters/filters  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN 
> -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
> -I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -Wall -rdynamic -O2  -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe 
> -Dfilter_def=define_txt ./txt-filt.c
> .../../../filters/txt-filt.l:891: warning: 'yy_fatal_error' defined but not used
> .../../../filters/txt-filt.l:490: warning: 'input' defined but not used
>
> Probably not worth another release, but just to let you know.

I get several of those with flex (more with lex).  There's a cleaner 
version of flex on my ftp area (reflex), which doesn't give that warning.

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