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In GNU Emacs 19.22.1 of Mon Dec  6 1993 on bigbird.llnl.gov (berkeley-unix)

If you use a @deftypefn with an empty return type, the printed
version contains an extra space at the beginning of the line where
the type would be.  An example from C++ is

@deftypefn { Constructor } {} RunStats (const char* @var{name}, int @var{level} = 0)
@end deftypefn

(We know you have other definition commands for object-oriented programs,
but we didn't like having the class name stuck into every function
declaration so we didn't use them.  Also, these don't have type variants.)

The offending line in texinfo.tex is in the definition of \deftypefnheaderx:

\defname {\code{#2} #3}{#1}%

To patch, we replaced this with

\def\foo##1##2$$${\ifx##1\relax\else\code{##1##2} \fi}
\defname {\foo#2\relax$$$#3}{#1}%

which tests for an empty argument.

Louis Howell
nazgul@llnl.gov