[PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Dec 11 21:38:00 GMT 2019


On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:42 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I left the "ISO C11" vs "ISO C" issue for some later time.
> 
> I think it's important for the manual to document which revision of
> the C standard a feature was added in, for everything that's newer
> than C1999.  I could even argue for C1989.

However, it should generally not try to distinguish between bug-fix 
variants of the same standard version (such as the 2011 and 2018 editions 
of ISO C, or the 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2018 editions of POSIX).  (There may 
be rare exceptions, e.g. where some interface was marked obsolescent in a 
bug-fix revision, as was the case with ATOMIC_VAR_INIT in the 2018 edition 
of ISO C.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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