Re: header file order issue on tar-1.19/lib/inttypes.h

2007-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The quick patch that I can do is to move where the #undef of the > _GL_JUST_INCLUDE_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY_H is. Yes, thanks, that sounds like a reasonable fix. I installed the patch below: does it work for you? > The long term fix to avoid this would

Re: removing empty parens after function names

2007-12-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you know / can you imagine another convention that can be used > to denote a function or macro name as a symbol? Like we use <...> > for URLs or system header files, upper case to denote a variable in > plain text (in place of ...), *..

Re: removing empty parens after function names

2007-12-18 Thread Karl Berry
The size of your patch - more than 300 KB - makes me think that perhaps something is wrong with this part of the GNU standards. If you want to ask rms about it, feel free. Do you know / can you imagine another convention that can be used to denote a function or macro name as a sy

Re: removing empty parens after function names

2007-12-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, The size of your patch - more than 300 KB - makes me think that perhaps something is wrong with this part of the GNU standards. Yes, it is formally incorrect to write foo() when foo takes more than 0 arguments. But it is a convention that is firmly rooted in Unix tradition. Anyway, I see

Re: removing empty parens after function names

2007-12-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > >> rms just requested that we remove the empty parentheses after function >> names on, e.g., http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html. He >> refers to the "GNU Manuals" node of standards.texi, > > Here's a fir