Patch for getopt docs

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Mon Oct 29 17:15:00 GMT 2001


The glibc manual fails to include the const in the type of the
longopts parameter of the getopt_long and getopt_long_only functions.
Patch:

2001-10-30  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>

	* manual/getopt.texi (getopt_long, getopt_long_only): Include
	const in type of longopts parameter.

--- manual/getopt.texi.orig	Fri May 25 11:29:29 2001
+++ manual/getopt.texi	Tue Oct 30 01:10:50 2001
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 
 @comment getopt.h
 @comment GNU
-@deftypefun int getopt_long (int @var{argc}, char *const *@var{argv}, const char *@var{shortopts}, struct option *@var{longopts}, int *@var{indexptr})
+@deftypefun int getopt_long (int @var{argc}, char *const *@var{argv}, const char *@var{shortopts}, const struct option *@var{longopts}, int *@var{indexptr})
 Decode options from the vector @var{argv} (whose length is @var{argc}).
 The argument @var{shortopts} describes the short options to accept, just as
 it does in @code{getopt}.  The argument @var{longopts} describes the long
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
 
 @comment getopt.h
 @comment GNU
-@deftypefun int getopt_long_only (int @var{argc}, char *const *@var{argv}, const char *@var{shortopts}, struct option *@var{longopts}, int *@var{indexptr})
+@deftypefun int getopt_long_only (int @var{argc}, char *const *@var{argv}, const char *@var{shortopts}, const struct option *@var{longopts}, int *@var{indexptr})
 
 The @code{getopt_long_only} function is equivalent to the
 @code{getopt_long} function but it allows to specify the user of the

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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