Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message

[Alex Rozenman]

Hi,

I just copied "git diff" results into my previous mail, so it wasn't
actually a patch.

 > 1. I used "printf("%.*s", len, ptr); Is this stuff portable ? I suppose
> it's
> > quite old, anyway it looks tricky. Isn't strndup better ?
>
>  Off the top of my head, I don't know the answer.  However, I don't
> actually see that in your code.  Where should I look?
>
I mean "complain_at". Sorry.


>
> > 3. In the NEWS file (symbolic/named references) . I googled:
> > "symbolic references" -> ~41,000
> How many of those are in the context of parser generators and grammars,
> where "symbol" has another meaning?
> > "named references" -> ~14,000 (including copies of our thread).
> Here in the US, I get completely different results from google.
> "named references" -> 117,000 (with quotes) or 27,300,000 (without quotes)
> "symbolic references" -> 48,300 (with quotes) or 826,000 (without quotes)
>
Weird. I re-checked it. Looks impossible that google may be so different.
Anyway, which one sounds better in English ?

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Best regards,
Alex Rozenman (address@hidden).