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Re: [PATCH] manual: drop strerror C89 compatibility note
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:47:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: drop strerror C89 compatibility note
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On 03/05/2015 02:14 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Mentioning systems that are old and don't support C89 is probably
> a waste of time nowadays. Drop the note.
>
> 2015-03-05 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>
> * manual/errno.texi: Delete strerror ISO C89 compatibility note.
We use node names as functions to narrow down the change scope:
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Remove ISO C89 note.
> ---
> manual/errno.texi | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/manual/errno.texi b/manual/errno.texi
> index 41d6639..315320d 100644
> --- a/manual/errno.texi
> +++ b/manual/errno.texi
> @@ -1361,9 +1361,6 @@ given error code; the precise text varies from system to system. With
> messages or embedded newlines. Each error message begins with a capital
> letter and does not include any terminating punctuation.
>
> -@strong{Compatibility Note:} The @code{strerror} function was introduced
> -in @w{ISO C89}. Many older C systems do not support this function yet.
> -
> @cindex program name
> @cindex name of running program
> Many programs that don't read input from the terminal are designed to
>
Agreed, it clutters the manual
c.