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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:58:32 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: improved unifdef(1) 
Message-ID:  <200204261558.g3QFwWoI001525@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020426152250.B18410@chiark.greenend.org.uk> ; from Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>  "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:22:50 BST."
References:  <20020426152250.B18410@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 

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> The unifdef in the system is not suited to heavyweight tasks like
> (say) xterm's main.c or wu-ftpd for a number of reasons:
> 
>  * it has a very low limit on the number of command-line arguments
>    that it can cope with (100) -- I've sumbitted PR#37454 about this.
> 
>  * it doesn't have the slightest clue about #elif
> 
>  * it doesn't attempt to handle #if

I am in violent agreement :-).

> Because I needed an unifdef with a bit more oomph and couldn't
> find a better one, I have done my own tune-up job on the BSD
> one, starting from the NetBSD sources (which seemed to have
> a mostly-superset of the changes made by the other BSDs).
> It's available from <http://dotat.at/prog/misc/unifdef.c>.
> The detailed change list is below. Note that only a very
> limited subset of #if expressions are understood, involving
> just defined(), !, &&, ||, and brackets.
> 
> If anyone is interested I'd appreciate some testing, and it
> would be nice to get it committed eventually.

Ooooh! :-)

Yes please!

I'll look at this.

M
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