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authorJonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>2020-08-03 21:16:50 +0100
committerJonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>2020-08-03 21:16:50 +0100
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cpp: Do not use @dots for ... tokens in code examples
This prevents a ... token in code examples from being turned into a single HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS glyph (e.g. via the HTML &hellip; entity). gcc/ChangeLog: * doc/cpp.texi (Variadic Macros): Use the exact ... token in code examples.
-rw-r--r--gcc/doc/cpp.texi14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/cpp.texi b/gcc/doc/cpp.texi
index 8c3dfcc..33f876a 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/cpp.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/cpp.texi
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ a function can. The syntax for defining the macro is similar to that of
a function. Here is an example:
@smallexample
-#define eprintf(@dots{}) fprintf (stderr, __VA_ARGS__)
+#define eprintf(...) fprintf (stderr, __VA_ARGS__)
@end smallexample
This kind of macro is called @dfn{variadic}. When the macro is invoked,
@@ -1655,11 +1655,11 @@ below for an important special case for @samp{##}.)
If your macro is complicated, you may want a more descriptive name for
the variable argument than @code{@w{__VA_ARGS__}}. CPP permits
this, as an extension. You may write an argument name immediately
-before the @samp{@dots{}}; that name is used for the variable argument.
+before the @samp{...}; that name is used for the variable argument.
The @code{eprintf} macro above could be written
@smallexample
-#define eprintf(args@dots{}) fprintf (stderr, args)
+#define eprintf(args...) fprintf (stderr, args)
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ You can have named arguments as well as variable arguments in a variadic
macro. We could define @code{eprintf} like this, instead:
@smallexample
-#define eprintf(format, @dots{}) fprintf (stderr, format, __VA_ARGS__)
+#define eprintf(format, ...) fprintf (stderr, format, __VA_ARGS__)
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@ invocation expands to its argument; but if the variable argument does
not have any tokens, the @code{@w{__VA_OPT__}} expands to nothing:
@smallexample
-#define eprintf(format, @dots{}) \
+#define eprintf(format, ...) \
fprintf (stderr, format __VA_OPT__(,) __VA_ARGS__)
@end smallexample
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ the introduction of @code{@w{__VA_OPT__}}, this extension remains
supported in GNU CPP, for backward compatibility. If you write
@smallexample
-#define eprintf(format, @dots{}) fprintf (stderr, format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define eprintf(format, ...) fprintf (stderr, format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -1758,7 +1758,7 @@ replacement list of a variadic macro.
Variadic macros became a standard part of the C language with C99.
GNU CPP previously supported them
with a named variable argument
-(@samp{args@dots{}}, not @samp{@dots{}} and @code{@w{__VA_ARGS__}}), which
+(@samp{args...}, not @samp{...} and @code{@w{__VA_ARGS__}}), which
is still supported for backward compatibility.
@node Predefined Macros