[patch] wchar stdio patches broke infos

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Dec 19 16:59:00 GMT 2008


On Dec 17 18:22, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> 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.

Uh, ok.  Thanks for the explanation,


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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