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relocatable-maint.texi: escape braces The change causes makeinfo 5.2 to fail: env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split --reference-limit=2000 gnulib.texi ./relocatable-maint.texi:153: misplaced { ... Escaping the braces as per the attached patch seems to fix this.
author Daniel Albers <daniel@lbe.rs>
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1 @node vfprintf
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2 @section @code{vfprintf}
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3 @findex vfprintf
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5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/vfprintf.html}
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12 This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (@code{hh}, @code{ll},
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14 AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
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16 printf of @samp{long double} numbers is unsupported on some platforms:
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19 printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an
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