Re: m4_shipout_int

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:27:26AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I think m4_shipout_int is broken:
> [[snip]]
> and in fact, I'm also tempted by replacing it with something based
> on ntoa/numb_obstack as can be found in modules/m4.c.  I guess there
> would be some loss of performance, but then, if you consider it's
> too expansive, anyway I would really like to see some m4_shipout_bigint
> somewhere: I already use it in some of my modules, and it results in
> a lot of code duplication.  That would garantee some common flavor to
> all these macros.
> 
> ?

Sounds good to me.  shipout_int is not a heavily used function, so a small
loss in efficiency is a good trade off IMHO.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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