Greg Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm looking at kernel-tree/Documentation/kbuild/cml2-reference.sgml
> in cml2-1.2.3.tar.gz. The string "nohelp" is not present anywhere,
> nor is "?" "?:" or "trinary". I can't find any mention of ?: in the
> BNF nor the precedence table, nor of "nohelp" in the section whose
> id="condition-on". OTOH another recent feature, vital trit type for
> query symbols, is documented.
>
> If there's a more recent Reference, it's not getting into the tarball.
It's there in 1.2.4.
> > The reason I have not documented this is that one of the items on
> > my to-do list is getting rid of type derivation. The only thing it's
> > used for is controlling print formats in config.out.
>
> In my code type derivation is one of the pieces of data used to feed
> a whole lot of parsetime and runtime checks. It was a pain to implement
> but I think worth it for the extra assurance that the rulebase is free
> of avoidable errors.
Well, I do type checking in expressions. It's just the type derivation
for derived symbols I'm thinking of eliminating.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
Our society won't be truly free until "None of the Above" is always an option.
_______________________________________________
kbuild-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
