Date:        Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:32:00 +0100
    From:        Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?= <e...@math.uni-bonn.de>
    Message-ID:  <20171112113159.gj73...@trav.math.uni-bonn.de>

  | > For this, stderr is remembered only when tracing turns from off to on,
  | > if it is on already, and another "set -x" is performed, nothing changes.

  | I can't unambigiously parse that.

Not a surprise.   Writing English isn't what I do well (but that is not to
mean that writing in some other natural language would be easier, of those
English is the only rational choice, though I occasionally demean myself
and write American instead...)

In a more natural form (the actual code looks nothing like this)...

        /* we are processing "set -x" */
        if (xflag == 1)
                return;
        xflag = 1;
        x_trace_file = stderr;

So...

  | From further reading, I guess it's a no-op.

Yes.

kre


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