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Re: manual: Complete @standards in lang.texi.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:48:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: manual: Complete @standards in lang.texi.
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- References: <20170616110951.24732-4-ricaljasan@pacific.net>
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Rical Jasan wrote:
> * manual/lang.texi (LDBL_MANT_DIG): Add annotation.
> (LDBL_DIG): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MIN_EXP): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MIN_10_EXP): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MAX_EXP): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MAX_10_EXP): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MAX): Likewise.
> (LDBL_MIN): Likewise.
> (LDBL_EPSILON): Likewise.
> (FLT_ROUNDS): Change standard from ISO to C90.
> (FLT_RADIX): Likewise.
> (FLT_MANT_DIG, DBL_MANT_DIG): Likewise.
> (FLT_DIG, DBL_DIG): Likewise.
> (FLT_MIN_EXP, DBL_MIN_EXP): Likewise.
> (FLT_MIN_10_EXP, DBL_MIN_10_EXP): Likewise.
> (FLT_MAX_EXP, DBL_MAX_EXP): Likewise.
> (FLT_MAX_10_EXP, DBL_MAX_10_EXP): Likewise.
> (FLT_MAX, DBL_MAX): Likewise.
> (FLT_MIN, DBL_MIN): Likewise.
> (FLT_EPSILON, DBL_EPSILON): Likewise.
OK, but if we're making such changes from ISO to C90 we should have a
comment (or visible text in the manual) somewhere (maybe on the definition
of @standards) stating the preferred forms of standard names, and what
they mean, and how combinations of standards should be represented.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com