A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Phil Pennock wrote:
>> -/^XXNAMES XXSIG[A-Z][A-Z0-9]* [1-9][0-9]*/ {
>> +/^XXNAMES XXSIG[A-Z][A-Z0-9]* *[1-9][0-9]*/ {
>
>Is that 'correct'?  Shouldn't it be "  *" rather than " *" to force at
>least one space?
>
>Thus:
>/^XXNAMES XXSIG[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*  *[1-9][0-9]*/ {

Hmm, yeah, that's really what you want.

>Could the pattern matched theoretically contain horizontal tabs there
>too?

I've no idea what kind of output different variants of cpp produce, or
what's considered correct, but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to
match one or more tabs/spaces.  Perhaps:
   /XXNAMES XXSIG[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*[ \t]+[1-9][0-9]*/

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