Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Alex Rozenman wrote:

>  > 1. I used "printf("%.*s", len, ptr); Is this stuff portable ? I suppose
> > it's
> > > quite old, anyway it looks tricky. Isn't strndup better ?

It's in the C99 standard and it's mentioned in an old text I have on C.  
I don't see any mention of it in Autoconf's portability documentation. 
Unless someone reports a problem, I guess it's fine.

> >  Off the top of my head, I don't know the answer.  However, I don't
> > actually see that in your code.  Where should I look?
> >
> I mean "complain_at". Sorry.

My fault.  I was in too much of a hurry and didn't see it.

> > > 3. In the NEWS file (symbolic/named references) . I googled:
> > > "symbolic references" -> ~41,000
> > How many of those are in the context of parser generators and grammars,
> > where "symbol" has another meaning?
> > > "named references" -> ~14,000 (including copies of our thread).
> > Here in the US, I get completely different results from google.
> > "named references" -> 117,000 (with quotes) or 27,300,000 (without quotes)
> > "symbolic references" -> 48,300 (with quotes) or 826,000 (without quotes)
> >
> Weird. I re-checked it. Looks impossible that google may be so different.

Maybe it's affected by the default language preferences for your region.

> Anyway, which one sounds better in English ?

In general, I think they both sound fine.  I just think "symbolic 
references" is ambiguous in the context of grammars.  What do you think, 
Akim?