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Text File | 1996-09-28 | 2KB | 42 lines

TODO file for GNU m4

Tell <[e-mail]> if you feel like volunteering for any
of these ideas, listed more or less in decreasing order of priority.

* Features or problems
  - Update documentation from accumulated mail about it
  - Changeword without arguments should restore default behavior
  - Study synclines at the very beginning of each diverted sequence
  - Make eval work on bignums - the 32 bits limit is artificial
    From Krste Asanovic <[e-mail]>, 1993-03-20

* Optimization and clean up
  - Check for memory leaks and uninitialized reads
    From Vern Paxson <[e-mail]> on 1993-12-06
  - Simplify format/ecvt code, together with HAVE_EFGCVT
  - Finalize the stdarg vs varargs thing
  - Profile GNU m4 and speed it up
    From David J. MacKenzie <[e-mail]>, 1993-01-20

    GNU m4 should be sped up by a factor of three for competing
    with other versions (I think that the lexer is not agressive
    enough and too often return single characters; obstacks might
    be a little abused, too).
  - Have NULs go really undisturbed through GNU m4
    See `dumpdef' and debugging section, which abuses %s
    From Thorsten Ohl <[e-mail]>, 1992-12-21

    path.c (add_include_directory): Why the '\0' terminator?

    GNU m4 is lousy regarding NULs in streams (this would require
    maintaining the string lengths, and avoiding strlen, strcpy,
    etc.).
  - Clean up the obstack.[ch] code
  - Use rx.[ch] instead of regex.[ch]
    From Hal Peterson <[e-mail]>, 1994-04-22

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