noun Technical meaning of m4 A macro processor for Unix and GCOS which is more flexible than cpp. m4 copies its input to the output, expanding macros which can be either built-in or user-defined. m4 has built-in functions for including files, running Unix commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways and recursing. m4 can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a stand-alone tool. There is a GNU m4 v1.1 by Francois Pinard <[email protected]> and a public domain version by Ozan Yigit <[email protected]> and Richard A. O'Keefe <[email protected]> (FTP from any 386BSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD archive). A Macintosh version is here. See also m3, m5. 1
symbol m4 the amount of money in circulation given by M1 plus most private-sector bank deposits and holdings of money-market instruments 0
