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Another POSIX incompatibility
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Another POSIX incompatibility |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:43:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
The Austin group just released its first draft of the next revision of POSIX;
you have to be a member of the Austin group to read it (registration is free).
In comparing the proposed changes against current POSIX, I found another GNU m4
bug:
$ echo hi > foo
$ /usr/xpg4/bin/m4 -Dhi=1 foo -Dhi=2 foo
1
2
$ m4 -Dhi=1 foo -Dhi=2 foo
2
2
The proposed POSIX wording adds "the order of the −D and −U options shall be
significant, and options can be interspersed with operands", validating the
Solaris behavior. Patch to follow soon (I guess it's a good thing I wasn't
able to release m4 1.4.8 last weekend, after all).
--
Eric Blake
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