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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2008-08-18 16:29:30 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2008-08-18 16:44:53 -0600
commitc6142860f91580baeeb594d56dbcebd5c8a25578 (patch)
tree47980afbb27ec894e74ef3559e026f924b89f41f /NEWS
parent39e9b179978e9de63c42f847ac55da88c4ca29c2 (diff)
downloadm4-c6142860f91580baeeb594d56dbcebd5c8a25578.tar.gz
Remove deprecated -N option; fixes a regression from 2006-09-14.
* src/main.c (DIVERSIONS_OPTION): Delete. (long_options, OPTSTRING, main): Remove -N/--diversions option. * doc/m4.texinfo (Limits control): Remove it from the manual. * NEWS: Mention that it is gone. * tests/options.at (deprecated options): Update test. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> (cherry picked from commit b8829779ba82826040f16fe78420f0e5a2fe881e)
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@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ promoted to 2.0.
*** Comments that contain unbalanced quotes were not rescanned correctly
when passed through $@.
+** Remove the undocumented command-line option '-N', as no one complained
+ about the assertion failure regression that it introduced in 1.4.7.
+
** Fix the `m4wrap' builtin to accumulate wrapped text in FIFO order, as
required by POSIX. The manual mentions a way to restore the LIFO order
present in earlier GNU M4 versions. NOTE: this change exposes a bug