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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: groff@gnu.org
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] "Re: [groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote"
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:28:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190212002851.5cuj7l2myorywwts@crack.deadbeast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201902120004.x1C04X9n044703@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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[looping the groff list back in]

At 2019-02-11T19:04:33-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Unless my leg is being pulled, I sent that for pure amusement.
> Gcc has a very open mind on the subject, using both options
> in the same sentence.

A truly Solomonic solution.  X-D

> > Doug wrote:
> > > A diagnostic from gcc chimes in:
> > > 'mktemp' is deprecated: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous; use `mkstemp'
> ...
> > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters
> 
> My impression was Doug was passing on a warning about the continued used
> of mktemp(3) rather than the continued use of ASCII.

Regards,
Branden

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-12  0:04 Doug McIlroy
2019-02-12  0:28 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]

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