commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/18dfb4404a618c52ee7138630a2381aed4d66eaf Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue May 31 22:31:23 2016 +0200 patch 7.4.1862 Problem: string() with repeated argument does not give a result usable by eval(). Solution: Refactor echo_striong and tv2string(), moving the common part to echo_string_core(). (Ken Takata)

README_src.txt for version 7.4 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-7.4-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!