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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-12-24 14:34:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-12-24 14:34:06 -0700 |
| commit | c557201fd9771b93dd5b3193af322d7d86a4cf45 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c21ac989bceb3c1af68d01394b11edb59f1c148 /NEWS | |
| parent | 268aa74a4cd66160d4c589572294e50f455c2069 (diff) | |
| download | m4-c557201fd9771b93dd5b3193af322d7d86a4cf45.tar.gz | |
Relax eval as allowed by POSIX 2008.
* modules/evalparse.c (m4_evaluate): Warn, not error, on invalid
operator. Quote expression in warning.
* modules/mpeval.c (includes): Add quotearg.h.
* doc/m4.texinfo (Eval, Improved forloop): Update tests.
* NEWS: Update to reflect 1.6 support for `?:'.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ promoted to 2.0. first line to show the definition of the macro being expanded. *** The `eval' and `mpeval' builtins now support the following new - operators: `>>>', `\', `?:', and `,'. + operators: `>>>', `\', and `,'. *** The `maketemp' builtin now always warns that it is obsolete, even in GNU mode where it uses the same secure algorithm as `mkstemp', because of @@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ promoted to 2.0. context of a macro name, rather than acting on the empty string. This was already done for `define', `pushdef', `builtin', and `indir'. +** Enhance the `eval' builtin to understand the `?:' operator, and + downgrade a failed parse due to an unknown operator from an error to a + warning. + ** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib. * Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.10b (2008-02-25) [beta] |