GNU m4

GNU m4
Developer(s) The GNU Project
Stable release 1.4.16 / March 1, 2011; 11 months ago (2011-03-01)
Operating system Unix-like
Type m4 macro preprocessor
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html

GNU m4 is the GNU version of the m4 macro preprocessor. It is designed to avoid many kinds of limits found in traditional m4s: limits like maximum line lengths, maximum size of a macro, number of macros, etc. Removing such arbitrary limits is one of the stated goals of the GNU projects.

The GNU Autoconf package makes extensive use of the features of GNU m4.

GNU m4 is currently maintained by Gary V. Vaughan and Eric Blake.

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