Re: toolchain/46750

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/46750; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/46750
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 02:20:34 +0200

 Robert Elz wrote:
  > Edgar Fu=C3=9F wrote:
  > |  Which bmake fourtunately doesn't adhere to. I doubt you want
  > |  	foo=3D bar	# see section 47.11
  > |  to assign trailing whitespace to foo.
  >
  > Yet gmake and smake both do include it.
 
 They don't. All of bmake, gmake and smake discard the whitespace between
 'bar' and '#'.
 
 https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html#tag_2=
 0_76_13_05
 
 Even though POSIX requires that the macro value includes trailing
 whitespace, I doubt that bmake or gmake will ever adhere to that
 specification. It's rather the POSIX specification that should be
 adjusted to reflect existing behavior.
 
 Roland