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Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- To: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- Subject: Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- From: Ken Pizzini <ken at halcyon dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:53:51 -0700
- Cc: pausmith at nortelnetworks dot com, Donn Terry <donnte at microsoft dot com>, Felix Lee <flee at teleport dot com>, Robert Lipe <robertlipe at usa dot net>, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, <autoconf at gnu dot org>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> Paul> I'm a little concerned that the & token isn't supported by all
> Paul> versions of sed, either, but I couldn't find any
> Paul> examples... anyone have thoughts on the portability of that?
>
> Hm, I never heard of portability issues on that point. Maybe Ken knows
> more?
I've never heard of any sed implementation failing to understand &
on the right-hand-side of a substitute as meaning "that which
matched on the left". All descendents of Bell Lab's v7 sed (at
least; I don't have first hand experience with older seds) have
supported it, and it would be a major incompatability for any other
sed to have failed to support it.
--Ken Pizzini