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commit 89ce53b3a0baafaccef80c2462bbed799169c759
Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Oct 26 16:12:46 2010 -0700

    docs: Posix now says "((cat))" isn't portable
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (Parenthesis): Update documentation to reflect
    what Posix 1003.1-2008 says about "((".

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    6 ++++++
 doc/autoconf.texi |    9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 34b3be4..6f9e4c9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-10-26  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
+
+       docs: Posix now says "((cat))" isn't portable
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Parenthesis): Update documentation to reflect
+       what Posix 1003.1-2008 says about "((".
+
 2010-10-20  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        docs: document dash bug in <>
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index adbdded..4af8663 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -16046,12 +16046,15 @@ for the rationale.
 @cindex Shell parentheses
 
 Beware of two opening parentheses in a row, as many shell
-implementations treat them specially.  Posix requires that the command
address@hidden((cat))} must behave like @samp{(cat)}, but many shells, including
+implementations treat them specially, and Posix says that a portable
+script cannot use @samp{((} outside the @samp{$((} form used for shell
+arithmetic.  In traditional shells, @samp{((cat))} behaves like
address@hidden(cat)}; but many shells, including
 Bash and the Korn shell, treat @samp{((cat))} as an arithmetic
 expression equivalent to @samp{let "cat"}, and may or may not report an
 error when they detect that @samp{cat} is not a number.  As another
-example, @samp{pdksh} 5.2.14 misparses the following code:
+example, @samp{pdksh} 5.2.14 does not treat the following code
+as a traditional shell would:
 
 @example
 if ((true) || false); then


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