[PATCH] wcwidth: adjust manpage input (Re: [PATCH] fix wcwidth to work with gcc 16 sign extension)

[Jeff Johnston]

Patch applied.  Thanks.

-- Jeff J.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 08/06/2026 22:26, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > Patch applied.
>   'make info' chokes on this.
>
> >   MAKEINFO ../../../src/newlib/libc/libc.info
> > wcwidth.def:34: misplaced {
> > wcwidth.def:36: misplaced }
> > wcwidth.def:38: misplaced {
> > wcwidth.def:40: misplaced }
> > wcwidth.def:44: misplaced {
> > wcwidth.def:48: misplaced {
> > wcwidth.def:48: misplaced }
> > wcwidth.def:49: misplaced }
>
> I think this is because makedoc does not correctly escape '{' or '}' for
> texinfo, outside of a fixed-width font section (which makedoc expects to
> be marked-up with '.' or '|'at the start of lines -- see courierize in
> makedoc.c)
>
> That's definitely a shortcoming in makedoc, but since this *is* a code
> example, courierize-ing it seems appropriate.
>
> Patch attached.
>
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