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Re: [PATCH] Fix an infinitely recursing example
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] Fix an infinitely recursing example |
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Wed, 2 Nov 2016 06:21:07 -0500 |
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On 11/02/2016 12:58 AM, Quinn Grier wrote:
> The "single" macro infinitely recurses because its expansion contains
> the unquoted text " single-". The "double" macro almost has the same
> problem, but it is protected by extra quotes. In any case, the macro
> names being repeated in the macro definitions is not necessary.
>
> This commit changes the macro names to "foo" and "bar", which are taken
> from a very similar example in the GNU M4 1.4.17 manual. See lines 1971
> to 1980 of v1.4.17:doc/m4.texi in the GNU M4 Git repository.
> ---
> doc/autoconf.texi | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Good catch! I'll install this alongside other patches that I'm testing
this week.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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