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@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +TODO file for GNU m4 + +Tell <bug-m4@gnu.org> if you feel like volunteering for any +of these ideas, listed more or less in decreasing order of priority. + +* Features or problems + - Fix format() builtin to handle %c more like printf(1) in the shell + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2007-05/msg00047.html + Also, gnulib needs help to overcome mingw bugs related to format(). + - Update documentation from accumulated mail about it + - Study synclines at the very beginning of each diverted sequence + - Make eval work on bignums - the 32 bits limit is artificial + From Krste Asanovic <krste@icsi.berkeley.edu>, 1993-03-20 + +* Optimization and clean up + - Check for memory leaks and uninitialized reads + From Vern Paxson <vern@horse.ee.lbl.gov> on 1993-12-06 + - Profile GNU m4 and speed it up + From David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>, 1993-01-20 + + GNU m4 should be sped up by a factor of three for competing + with other versions (I think that the lexer is not agressive + enough and too often return single characters; obstacks might + be a little abused, too). + - Have NULs go really undisturbed through GNU m4 + See `dumpdef' and debugging section, which abuses %s + From Thorsten Ohl <ohl@chico.harvard.edu>, 1992-12-21 + + path.c (add_include_directory): Why the '\0' terminator? + + GNU m4 is lousy regarding NULs in streams (this would require + maintaining the string lengths, and avoiding strlen, strcpy, + etc.). + +Local Variables: +mode: outline +outline-regexp: " *[-+*.] \\| " +End: + +Copyright (C) 2000, 2006-2007, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. |