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* [TUHS] "Re: [groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote"
@ 2019-02-12  0:04 Doug McIlroy
  2019-02-12  0:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Doug McIlroy @ 2019-02-12  0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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.

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> 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.

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* Re: [TUHS] "Re: [groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote"
  2019-02-12  0:04 [TUHS] "Re: [groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote" Doug McIlroy
@ 2019-02-12  0:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: G. Branden Robinson @ 2019-02-12  0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: groff; +Cc: tuhs

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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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