From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 05:46:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''" X-Git-Tag: AUTOCONF-2.59c~401 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e214711ff041f04d05f9b64b3cd43739db6211f2;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''" outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days. --- diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index c1664978e..4e01a029b 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -11701,7 +11701,7 @@ example: expr '' \| '' @end example -@acronym{GNU}/Linux and Posix 1003.2-1992 return the empty string +Posix 1003.2-1992 returns the empty string for this case, but traditional Unix returns @samp{0} (Solaris is one such example). In Posix 1003.1-2001, the specification was changed to match traditional Unix's behavior (which is