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[SCM] GNU M4 source repository branch, branch-1.4, updated. v1.4.13-4-gcd172d9 |
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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:36:21 +0000 |
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commit cd172d932ce467b2c592eb9a603962b280aa0570
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Jun 25 06:32:15 2009 -0600
Fix description of limits on diversions.
* doc/m4.texinfo (Diversions): Fix grammar. Be less pessimistic
about limitations.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Elias Benali.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
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Summary of changes:
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
THANKS | 1 +
doc/m4.texinfo | 9 ++++-----
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e675616..1a8a7c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-06-25 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
+
+ Fix description of limits on diversions.
+ * doc/m4.texinfo (Diversions): Fix grammar. Be less pessimistic
+ about limitations.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Reported by Elias Benali.
+
2009-06-17 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Update to latest gnulib.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 7fc3c63..949322a 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Dan Jacobson address@hidden
David J. MacKenzie address@hidden
David Perlin address@hidden
Elbert Pol address@hidden
+Elias Benali address@hidden
Erez Zadok address@hidden
Eric Allman address@hidden
Eric Backus address@hidden
diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo
index 1c5230a..48aa74e 100644
--- a/doc/m4.texinfo
+++ b/doc/m4.texinfo
@@ -5090,17 +5090,16 @@ time.
@cindex @env{TMPDIR}
Numbered diversions are counted from 0 upwards, diversion number 0
-being the normal output stream. The number of simultaneous diversions
-is limited mainly by the memory used to describe them, because @acronym{GNU}
+being the normal output stream. @acronym{GNU}
@code{m4} tries to keep diversions in memory. However, there is a
-limit to the overall memory usable by all diversions taken altogether
+limit to the overall memory usable by all diversions taken together
(512K, currently). When this maximum is about to be exceeded,
a temporary file is opened to receive the contents of the biggest
diversion still in memory, freeing this memory for other diversions.
When creating the temporary file, @code{m4} honors the value of the
environment variable @env{TMPDIR}, and falls back to @file{/tmp}.
-So, it is theoretically possible that the number and aggregate size of
-diversions is limited only by available disk space.
+Thus, the amount of available disk space provides the only real limit on
+the number and aggregate size of diversions.
@ignore
@comment We need to test spilled diversions, but don't need to expose
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