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Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo

From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:08:38 +0200
Subject: Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo
References: <17197.4463.990163.590748@gargle.gargle.HOWL><432D4C72.7010202@lu.unisi.ch><432D9C44.5030807@codesourcery.com><jed5n6b3fp.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab writes:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > I do think requiring a POSIX-compliant shell is reasonable.
> 
> POSIX compliance wouldn't help much here, since it makes the issue
> implementation-defined.  A better alternative might be to use printf
> instead.

Looking at the make manual printf isn't listed under the recommended
tools you should use, therefore the workaround using sed. Anyway, I
discovered too late, that this code was removed with the last
classpath merge, so it's only an issue on the branch.

  Matthias

References:
- [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo
  - From: Matthias Klose
- Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviourin echo
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviourin echo
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo
  - From: Andreas Schwab

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