1TODO file for GNU m4
2
3Tell <bug-m4@gnu.org> if you feel like volunteering for any
4of these ideas, listed more or less in decreasing order of priority.
5
6* Features or problems
7  - Fix format() builtin to handle %c more like printf(1) in the shell
8        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2007-05/msg00047.html
9    Also, gnulib needs help to overcome mingw bugs related to format().
10  - Update documentation from accumulated mail about it
11  - Study synclines at the very beginning of each diverted sequence
12  - Make eval work on bignums - the 32 bits limit is artificial
13        From Krste Asanovic <krste@icsi.berkeley.edu>, 1993-03-20
14
15* Optimization and clean up
16  - Check for memory leaks and uninitialized reads
17        From Vern Paxson <vern@horse.ee.lbl.gov> on 1993-12-06
18  - Profile GNU m4 and speed it up
19        From David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>, 1993-01-20
20
21        GNU m4 should be sped up by a factor of three for competing
22        with other versions (I think that the lexer is not agressive
23        enough and too often return single characters; obstacks might
24        be a little abused, too).
25  - Have NULs go really undisturbed through GNU m4
26        See `dumpdef' and debugging section, which abuses %s
27        From Thorsten Ohl <ohl@chico.harvard.edu>, 1992-12-21
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29        path.c (add_include_directory): Why the '\0' terminator?
30
31        GNU m4 is lousy regarding NULs in streams (this would require
32        maintaining the string lengths, and avoiding strlen, strcpy,
33        etc.).
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