Re: sysval and doc fixes [was: GNU M4 1.4.4b released (beta release)]

[Andreas Büning]

Eric Blake schrieb:

> > Can you try that patch, backported to 1.4.4b, to see if it also solves
> > the issue for OS/2?  If so, I'll check it in.

That patch seems to correspond to some different source tree. There is
no gnu.c. I downloaded builtin.c from CVS instead.

> On second thought, even if it doesn't help OS/2, it will help BeOS,
> so I'm checking it in, along with an additional patch to beef up
> the testsuite so that we validate an actual non-zero exit value (the
> exit value of false is non-portable).  But hopefully OS/2 does
> define WEXITSTATUS.

WEXITSTATUS is defined in sys/wait.h as
#define WEXITSTATUS(st) ((st) >> 8)
but I think it's not intended to be used with system().


Best regards,
Andreas