I got the info below, which might be used to stamp parser files with the M4 version. I gather, if __m4_version__ macro is undefined, one defines it to syscmd(`m4 --version').

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Hallo Hans,

Hans Aberg wrote:
Does M4 have a macro, expanding to its version number (I suspect not)? This might be useful when using M4 to generate parser/lexer files in Bison/Flex, and stamp them with the M4 version used, so it becomes clearly visible in debug reports.

CVS M4 (soon to be m4-2.0) has __m4_version__.

Release versions of GNU m4 could use syscmd(`m4 --version') if PATH is
set reasonably...

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        Gary.
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