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http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd172d932ce467b2c592eb9a603962b280aa0570 The branch, branch-1.4 has been updated via cd172d932ce467b2c592eb9a603962b280aa0570 (commit) from 5f008b95238b6d655f08cb69a807975ee8f96186 (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those revisions in full, below. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit cd172d932ce467b2c592eb9a603962b280aa0570 Author: Eric Blake <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jun 25 06:32:15 2009 -0600 Fix description of limits on diversions. * doc/m4.texinfo (Diversions): Fix grammar. Be less pessimistic about limitations. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Elias Benali. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/m4.texinfo | 9 ++++----- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e675616..1a8a7c3 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2009-06-25 Eric Blake <[email protected]> + + Fix description of limits on diversions. + * doc/m4.texinfo (Diversions): Fix grammar. Be less pessimistic + about limitations. + * THANKS: Update. + Reported by Elias Benali. + 2009-06-17 Eric Blake <[email protected]> Update to latest gnulib. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 7fc3c63..949322a 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Dan Jacobson [email protected] David J. MacKenzie [email protected] David Perlin [email protected] Elbert Pol [email protected] +Elias Benali [email protected] Erez Zadok [email protected] Eric Allman [email protected] Eric Backus [email protected] diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index 1c5230a..48aa74e 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -5090,17 +5090,16 @@ time. @cindex @env{TMPDIR} Numbered diversions are counted from 0 upwards, diversion number 0 -being the normal output stream. The number of simultaneous diversions -is limited mainly by the memory used to describe them, because @acronym{GNU} +being the normal output stream. @acronym{GNU} @code{m4} tries to keep diversions in memory. However, there is a -limit to the overall memory usable by all diversions taken altogether +limit to the overall memory usable by all diversions taken together (512K, currently). When this maximum is about to be exceeded, a temporary file is opened to receive the contents of the biggest diversion still in memory, freeing this memory for other diversions. When creating the temporary file, @code{m4} honors the value of the environment variable @env{TMPDIR}, and falls back to @file{/tmp}. -So, it is theoretically possible that the number and aggregate size of -diversions is limited only by available disk space. +Thus, the amount of available disk space provides the only real limit on +the number and aggregate size of diversions. @ignore @comment We need to test spilled diversions, but don't need to expose hooks/post-receive -- GNU M4 source repository
