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([2001:a61:2479:6801:d8fe:4132:9f23:7e8f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f12sm4030890wmf.26.2020.10.03.00.10.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jwakely.gcc@gmail.com, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] system_data_types.7: Add 'void *' To: Alejandro Colomar , Paul Eggert , "G. Branden Robinson" References: <20201002121645.23646-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <20201002151419.32053-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <3941e130-df05-778b-dc76-90cd58400192@cs.ucla.edu> <5b01a17e-5819-115f-7972-7f849d4356df@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <78368866-e848-d208-eef7-f3a93a797853@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 09:10:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5b01a17e-5819-115f-7972-7f849d4356df@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 10/2/20 10:27 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On 2020-10-02 22:14, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/2/20 11:38 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > >> .I void * > >> > >> renders with a space in between. > > > > That's odd, as "man(7)" says "All of the arguments will be printed next > > to each other without intervening spaces". I'd play it safe and quote > > the arg anyway. > > Oops, that's a bug in man(7). > Don't worry about it. I'm not sure where that text in man(7) comes from. However, for clarity I would normally also use quotes in this case. > Michael, you might want to have a look at it. > > I'll also add Branden, who might have something to say about it. Yes, maybe Branden can add some insight. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/