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Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:09:07 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:04 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote:
> > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words
> >
> > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81.
>
> I agree: I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit, with GNU make 3.81-6 installed
> as well, and I don't see the OP's incorrect behavior.
>
> I get messages produced for all the words, just like Martin.
Note that messages for all the words is also a bug.
There should be no error messages.
Because it is so unusually finicky, depending on the exact text (not
just the length of the words), I wouldn't be surprised if it depends
on the exact compiled binary, or maybe even finer details like memory
layout.
-- Jamie