From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128'
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:53:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ebf0b17-99d8-e658-8746-65f1550b1d7f@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f1430df-4bca-5cb4-1fc9-ae24c6a355bf@gmail.com>
On 10/2/20 4:44 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I know, they aren't perfect.
> But they are still very useful,
> and don't see a good reason to not document them.
"aren't perfect" is an understatement....
More important, lots of things in GNU C are useful but shouldn't be documented
in the man pages, because they're out of scope. (The syntax of GNU C strings,
for example.) The man pages are not intended to be a guide to every feature of
GNU C. There is the GNU C manual for that, and people can read that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 16:34 [PATCH 0/4] Document 128-bit types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 11:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-02 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 19:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 19:54 ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 20:03 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 20:19 ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 23:44 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 23:53 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-10-05 7:12 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 6:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-07 6:57 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] __int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] system_data_types.7: Add 'unsigned __int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] unsigned-__int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Document 128-bit types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] __int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] system_data_types.7: Add 'unsigned __int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] unsigned-__int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
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