From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AAF7C433F5 for ; Tue, 24 May 2022 14:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230251AbiEXODC (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2022 10:03:02 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42866 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232788AbiEXODB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2022 10:03:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 338 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Tue, 24 May 2022 07:03:00 PDT Received: from cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr (cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.13.17]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1092865D21 for ; Tue, 24 May 2022 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vlefevre by cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr with local (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1ntV2E-0005Kk-Re; Tue, 24 May 2022 15:57:18 +0200 Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 15:57:18 +0200 From: Vincent Lefevre To: Stefan Puiu Cc: Alejandro Colomar , lnx-man Subject: Re: [PATCH] printf.3: Document 'l' length modifier for a, A, e, E, f, F, g, and G Message-ID: <20220524135718.GA17707@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> References: <20220520141040.1136383-1-vincent@vinc17.net> <20220520161121.GA1112518@zira.vinc17.org> <20220520173043.GC1112518@zira.vinc17.org> <20220524073937.GO1112518@zira.vinc17.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.5+22 (1066be97) vl-138565 (2022-05-21) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 2022-05-24 15:23:33 +0300, Stefan Puiu wrote: > OK, now I think I understand what you mean. I guess "a following ... > conversion" (used all over that man page, as you said) sounds a bit > weird to me, though it might be proper English, I don't know. It also sounds a bit weird to me (though this is grammatically correct), but FYI, the ISO C standard uses the same words: "Specifies that a following d, i, o, u, x, or X conversion specifier applies to [...]", etc. So I suppose that there isn't any problem with this. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)