From a5333e422d20f0e43407919ae1d5b46ebefc9c4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:58:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] doc: detail inconsistencies in sed word boundary handling

* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of usual tools): Display a
table showing where the various syntaxes for word boundaries
are supported.
---
 doc/autoconf.texi | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 4be1f70..3e3a894 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -19666,6 +19666,18 @@ $ @kbd{echo abc | busybox sed '/a\(b\)c/ s/a\(b\)c/\1/'}
 b
 @end example
 
+Portable scripts should be aware of the inconsistencies and options for
+handling word boundaries, as these are not specified by POSIX.
+
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+                \<      \b      [[:<:]]
+Solaris 10      yes     no      no
+Solaris XPG4    yes     no      error
+NetBSD 5.1      no      no      yes
+FreeBSD 9.1     no      no      yes
+GNU             yes     yes     error
+busybox         yes     yes     error
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 @item @command{sed} (@samp{t})
 @c ---------------------------
-- 
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