From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] system_data_types.7: time_t: Add Versions note
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 07:46:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78f7baf9-bd40-39d5-bbca-403381ec369a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dc0c08b-ebf8-3d79-75c8-7579f537cd48@cs.ucla.edu>
On 10/18/20 3:05 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/17/20 2:37 PM, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> since POSIX.1-2008.
>> +.PP
>> +Prior to POSIX.1-2008,
>> +the type was either an integer type or a real-floating type.
>
> No actual POSIXish implementation ever made it a real-floating type, though, and
> that point should be made lest some conscientious programmer worry about a
> nonexistent porting issue.
Thanks for catching this, Paul!
Alex, I suggest either we drop this patch, or you could reword as
something like:
"In POSIX.1-2001, the type was specified as being either an integer
type or a real-floating type. However, existing implementations
used an integer type, and POSIX.1-2008 tightened the specification
to reflect this."
Thanks,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-18 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-17 21:37 [PATCH 1/3] system_data_types.7: time_t: Add Versions note Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-17 21:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] system_data_types.7: Add 'clock_t' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-18 5:56 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-18 9:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-18 13:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-19 17:40 ` \- vs - (Was [Re: [PATCH 2/3] system_data_types.7: Add 'clock_t']) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-19 18:10 ` Jakub Wilk
2020-10-19 22:11 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-21 21:19 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-10-17 21:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] clock_t.3: New link to system_data_types(3) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-18 16:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-18 1:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] system_data_types.7: time_t: Add Versions note Paul Eggert
2020-10-18 5:46 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-10-18 9:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-18 13:05 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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