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Re: Autoconf now recommends M4 1.4.6


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Autoconf now recommends M4 1.4.6
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:33:44 -0600
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According to Paul Eggert on 8/25/2006 11:24 AM:
> Now that 1.4.6 is out, and fixes some serious buffer overruns, I
> installed this:
> 
> 2006-08-25  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * NEWS: Recommend M4 1.4.6 instead of 1.4.5.

Thanks for doing that.  I also hope (but have not tried to benchmark) that
plugging the memory leak in m4's regexp/patsubst macros will speed
autoconf performance since so many m4sugar macros rely on regular expressions.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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