[patch] wchar stdio patches broke infos

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 08:52:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 15 15:32, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>   
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Dec 14 16:42, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Well, current newlib doesn't build, seemingly because of lack of
>>>> documentation:
>>>>         
>>> But why?  The man page entries in fgetwc.c and fputwc.c are formed
>>> exactly as, for instance, the entry in vfprintf.c, which also defines
>>> multiple functions.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Problem was there were references to non-existent nodes getwc and putwc in 
>> stdio/stdio.tex.  I have fixed this.
>>     
>
> Thanks.  Here's a question.  What constitutes a node in the man page
> text?  Or, in other words, is there no way to have two menu entries
> point to the same node?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>   
In our particular case, it is a tag in the .def file @node.  See any 
.def file.  These are generated by makedoc which appears to simply takes 
the name of the .c file and makes that the node name.  Hence the one to 
one node to .def file situation.

-- Jeff J.



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