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- From: bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
- Subject: m4 Bug(?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.031714.21845@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: m4 bug
- Sender: bri@pegasus.mit.edu
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- Organization: mit
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 03:17:14 GMT
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- This is the first time i've had to mess with m4 on a large scale, so i
- want to ask a few questions. anyone else had any problems with m4? i'm
- trying to use it to make MIT-Scheme work under 386bsd. since i hadnt
- used it before, i assumed it was a problem with different machines.
- but eval is failing on things like: eval(2 ** 4) and eval(2 ^ 4)
- both of which return 16 under another bsd-like environment. took me
- a while to be sure because THERE IS NO M4 MAN PAGE. also, it gets
- errors on several other macros, but i want to check this more, as i
- said i'm no m4 wiz. if any one can suggest another m4 to try or has
- patches for 386bsd m4, i'd appreciate info. If people do agree this
- is a bug, i guess i better start fixing it...in any case, feel free to
- post here or to bri@pegasus.mit.edu...
-
- -bri
-