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Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:32:08 -0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
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On Nov 25, 2013, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 17:40 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 2013, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 11:02 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> >> On Nov 22, 2013, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Thus, it will be in the context of full English sentences
>> >>
>> >> Actually, no; the context of the keywords is supposed to be a one-line
>> >> âtableâ already containing such abbreviated English words as MT-Safe and
>> >> AC-Unsafe. It's not running text in any way you look at it.
>>
>> > I was referring to the documentation that even the one-line "table"
>> > would be part of. Which is mostly full English sentences, right?
>>
>> I don't think so. At least the following line, like every line that
>> would precede the table, doesn't seem like English, let alone English
>> sentences, to me ;-)
>>
>> void *realloc (void *addr, size_t size)
> But we document what realloc does in full English sentences, don't we?
Yeah, but why should a table without running sentences that's
conceptually and physically closer to the non-English prototype be
forced into standards that don't even apply to the running text, where
non-English words and contractions often appear in the middle of
sentences?
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- Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.
- Re: Consensus on MT-, AS- and AC-Safety docs.