On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:59:15AM -0700, George Vasick wrote: > I reviewed changes between the 1.4.2 and 1.4.12 version of the GNU m4 > preprocessor. I found two new options: > > --debugfile=FILE > --warn-macro-sequence[=REGEXP] > > These add additional diagnostic capability compared to the earlier release. > > I also ran the 1.4.2 test suite against version 1.4.12. I found four > differences in the results: > > - 3 due to formatting changes in in error diagnostics. The messages are no > longer prefixed with "m4:". > - 1 due to a change in the WIDTH operand to eval(). Leading minus signs > are now excluded when calculating the width of a field. > > Would this level of change be appropriate for an ARC review?
Perhaps a self-review case -- like a fast-track in terms of documentation, but considered sufficiently obvious and non-controversial that even a week is overkill for discussion time. Personally, if the new interfaces or compatible change to existing interfaces fall into obvious categories set up by previous ARC cases for a component (eg, "Command line options: Uncommitted") and all incompatible changes are to existing interfaces which are classified below Uncommitted, then I myself probably wouldn't bother filing a case at all, though I'm sure there will be a difference of opinion across the ARC community on that. Danek
