The following reply was made to PR bin/33956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
To: David Holland <dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc: current-users@NetBSD.org, njoly@pasteur.fr, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/33956: -current /bin/sh possible regression
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:09:39 +0200

 On Mon 10 Jul 2006 at 18:05:32 -0400, David Holland wrote:
 >    sh -c 'foo() { printargv "Testing ${@} fnord"; }; foo a b'
 
 In my view, the *real* problem is that the above case simply is
 undefined, hence any particular output is never a bug.
 
 Look at the manpage (from 3.0):
 
      @            Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.
                   When the expansion occurs within double-quotes, each posi-
                   tional parameter expands as a separate argument.  If there
                   are no positional parameters, the expansion of @ generates
                   zero arguments, even when @ is double-quoted.  What this
                   basically means, for example, is if $1 is ``abc'' and $2 is
                   ``def ghi'', then "$@" expands to the two arguments:
 
                         "abc" "def ghi"
 
 This arguably only defines "$@", not if anything else is between the quotes.
 The author of that definition simply never contemplated that case.
 
 -Olaf.
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