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Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message
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Joel E. Denny |
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Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:49:57 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) |
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Alex Rozenman wrote:
> > 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 ?
It's in the C99 standard and it's mentioned in an old text I have on C.
I don't see any mention of it in Autoconf's portability documentation.
Unless someone reports a problem, I guess it's fine.
> > 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.
My fault. I was in too much of a hurry and didn't see it.
> > > 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.
Maybe it's affected by the default language preferences for your region.
> Anyway, which one sounds better in English ?
In general, I think they both sound fine. I just think "symbolic
references" is ambiguous in the context of grammars. What do you think,
Akim?
- [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Alex Rozenman, 2009/09/05
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Joel E. Denny, 2009/09/05
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Alex Rozenman, 2009/09/05
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Joel E. Denny, 2009/09/05
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Alex Rozenman, 2009/09/06
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Joel E. Denny, 2009/09/06
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Alex Rozenman, 2009/09/10
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Joel E. Denny, 2009/09/10
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Alex Rozenman, 2009/09/11
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message,
Joel E. Denny <=
- Re: [PATCH] use "unresolved reference" message, Akim Demaille, 2009/09/16