From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20905 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2003 08:57:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20847 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2003 08:57:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030611085751.20846.qmail@sources.redhat.com> From: "jsm28@cam.ac.uk" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20030611031019.11146.drk@sgi.com> References: <20030611031019.11146.drk@sgi.com> Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug other/11146] Bad characters in cpp.1, gcc.1 man pages X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg01299.txt.bz2 List-Id: PLEASE REPLY TO gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org ONLY, *NOT* gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11146 ------- Additional Comments From jsm28@cam.ac.uk 2003-06-11 08:57 ------- Subject: Re: Bad characters in cpp.1, gcc.1 man pages On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, drk@sgi.com wrote: > Created an attachment (id=4197) --> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4197&action=view) > --> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4197&action=view) > Proposed fix > > Note that patch doesn't actually process files containing > NULLs properly; you'll have to apply this by hand. Patching generated files is not a suitable fix. Someone (Zack is the most expert in this area) will need to determine which generation stage (texi2pod.pl or pod2man) is introducing these characters and either fix texi2pod.pl or fix pod2man and adjust the version requirements on it. Problems with what patch handles are only relevant insofar as this might cause problems for people applying the 3.3.1 diff if the problem is fixed for 3.3.1, if patch 2.5.4 (the version we recommend, because some earlier versions are known to have problems with binary diffs) won't handle these characters properly.