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Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- To: Donn Terry <donnte at microsoft dot com>
- Subject: Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- From: Felix Lee <flee at teleport dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:42:01 -0700
- Cc: "'Robert Lipe'" <robertlipe at usa dot net>, "'Russ Allbery '" <rra at stanford dot edu>, "'autoconf at gnu dot org '" <autoconf at gnu dot org>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org '" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Donn Terry <donnte@microsoft.com>:
> The current partial solution involves having two the-same-but-different
> versions of the same string, with different levels of \ quoting
> of ` (to allow nesting of `).
what do you gain from nesting `` that you can't do by using
temp variables? I can't think of a case where they aren't
equivalent.
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