[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.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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