CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests

["Roland Illig" <rillig%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Thu Jul 29 06:31:18 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests: cond-cmp-numeric.exp cond-cmp-numeric.mk

Log Message:
tests/make: test spaces around numbers in comparisons

Just to see whether it is possible to write a conditional in the form
${ ${A} < ${B} :? ${A} : ${B} }, that is, with leading and trailing
whitespace, to make it easier for humans to read the code.

It's not possible, the result of this computation cannot be used in
further numeric comparisons, at least not in .if directives.  Leading
space would work, but trailing space wouldn't.

On the other hand, they would work in expressions of the form
${ ${A} < ${B} :? ... : ... } since in these, the condition is first
expanded and then parsed.  But that is an implementation detail that is
not documented and it is also difficult to understand.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/cond-cmp-numeric.exp
cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/usr.bin/make/unit-tests/cond-cmp-numeric.mk

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