Re: gEDA-user: clues to m4 out of memory error

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:18:06PM -0800, Traylor Roger wrote:
>> Guys,
>>   I pushed forward to pcb with the new .pcb file produced
>>   by gsch2pcb.  The .pcb file created was 6325162 lines long!  
> 
> One of the very first bugs I ran into was an infinite loop in a footprint
> (I think SIL) caused by the fact that the m4 'for' macro only terminated
> on an 'equal', not 'greater than' condition, and SIL derived from DIL and
> had some misplaced divide by 2 leading to a loop to something-and-a-half
> which is an infinite loop.
> 

another possibility is that you have a buggy version of m4.  Try this:

echo "eval(-2/2)" | m4

It will be fairly obvious if you have the broken one.

-Dan


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