[tex-k] Re: Possible mini-bug in kpathsea/absolute.c?

Olaf Weber olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 29 23:01:50 CEST 2006


Karl Berry writes:

>     Actually, on further thought, given that we are returning
>     absolute || explicit_relative, shouldn't this whole thing say:

> The || 1, or || 0, seems bizarre anyway, in terms of precedence.

It makes sense in terms of disabling the tail of complex expression.
It doesn't make the code readable or maintainable.

> Personally I rather doubt the AMIGA code has actually been compiled in a
> decade or so.

The AMIGA bit should probably just be removed at this point.

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Olaf Weber

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