-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Mike Frysinger on 11/21/2009 3:47 PM: > the autoconf documentation here is a far cry from anything you can point at > and say "this is a bug in your code". all it says: > it is nicer to associate a name with each diversion; the diversion > number > associated with a particular diversion name is an implementation > detail, so > you should only use diversion names
Documentation patches welcome. > > which is not the same as "you must never use numbers less than 300 or your > script will break". especially because things have worked just fine without > any warnings, and even now there are no warnings. just ugly shell errors > (and > in some larger scripts, infinite loops of them). > > if there are reserved numerical regions, then autoconf really needs to > warn/error out here. m4sugar patches welcome. But I don't know how to write such a patch to make m4_divert warn the user they are shooting themselves in the foot, without also breaking m4_divert for autoconf's internal use. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksIbbsACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCbzACgi849TVypbFza4Ap+9TvDhXSG QwEAoNIHmyhSC3A/nkiJKgBrme75eASC =XJbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
