Ellipsis in varadic macro definitions

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 14:53, Richard Sandiford
<richard.sandiford@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 11:28, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >>
> >> * Jonathan Wakely via Gcc:
> >>
> >> > On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 15:49, Philip R Brenan via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi *GCC*:
> >> >>
> >> >> On page:
> >> >>
> >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Variadic-Macros.html#Variadic-Macros
> >> >>
> >> >> you say:
> >> >>
> >> >> #define eprintf(args…) fprintf (stderr, args)
> >> >>
> >> >> but do you in fact mean:
> >> >>
> >> >> #define eprintf(args...) fprintf (stderr, args)
> >> >>
> >> >> The first variant produces:
> >> >>
> >> >> error: expected ',' or ')', found "…"
> >> >>
> >> >>  the second variant works well using GCC10.2 on Kubuntu 18.04.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, the texinfo source uses @dots which gets turned into … in
> >> > the HTML, which isn't necessarily displayed as three separate dots in
> >> > the browser. I don't know why @dots is used rather than ...
> >>
> >> It was introduced with:
> >>
> >> commit 1c5dd43ff7c78bbdba5e89a6cb16a3e50e1abff9
> >> Author: Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu>
> >> Date:   Fri Jun 15 17:57:48 2001 +0000
> >>
> >>     cpp.texi: Formatting corrections.
> >>
> >>     * doc/cpp.texi: Formatting corrections.
> >>     Correct buggy example of use of __GNUC__ etc.
> >>     Clarify $ in identifiers.
> >>     * doc/cpp.1: Regenerate.
> >>
> >>     From-SVN: r43404
> >>
> >> Some of these changes were clearly correct, but the ... C token should
> >> have not been changed.  Looks like a simple oversight to me.
> >
> > Thanks for the archaeology, Florian.
> >
> > Here's a patch to replace those inappropriate @dots macros with the
> > literal ... token.
> >
> > Tested by building the docs and inspecting the .info and .html output.
> >
> > OK for trunk?
>
> OK, thanks.  (And for branches too.)

Pushed to all branches, thanks.