>Number:         2914
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       m4(1) mentions $@, which isn't implemented.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov  4 21:35:02 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian Grayson
>Organization:
	
>Release:        1.2, 1.2-current (110296)
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD marvin 1.2 NetBSD 1.2 (MARVIN) #1: Tue Oct 1 21:46:42 CDT 1996 bgrayson@marvin:/a/orac/home/orac/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MARVIN i386


>Description:
  In the man page for m4(1), under the paragraph on 'define', it
  mentions that:
      $* is replaced by all arguments comma separated; $@ is the
      same as $* but all arguments are quoted against further expansion.

>How-To-Repeat:
  echo 'define(foo1,$*) define(foo2,$@) foo1(a,b,c) foo2(a,b,c)' | m4

  The output on a Sun using System V m4 is what is expected:

    a,b,c a,b,c

  but on NetBSD we get this instead:

    a,b,c $@

>Fix:
  From an examination of eval.c and serv.c in
  /usr/src/usr.bin/m4, it looks like the $@ is never detected,
  and thus the man page is in error, so the fix would be to
  remove the reference to $@ in the man page.  It could be that
  this is really a missing-but-important-feature in m4, in
  which case this should be a bin bug instead of a misc/doc-bug.
	
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