Re: [PATCH] Fix docs for scalb* and significand* functions

[Mark H Weaver <mhw at netris dot org>]

Hi Roland,

Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:
> Those changes are good.
>
> Please follow the conventions for posting patches, which say to include the
> ChangeLog fragment separate from the patch.
>
> The log entry for a .texi file change should mention the node name in the
> same way that the entry for a code change mentions the function name.
> C-x 4 a will do this right for you.

Okay, thanks for letting me know.

> Do you think this will be your only contribution to libc?

I expect to make occasional contributions to libc in the future.

> If not, then please get your copyright papers in order and
> get yourself set up to do your own commits.

Sounds good.  I'll file copyright papers in the next week or two.

> If someone is looking for a helpful project that doesn't involve hacking
> the library code itself, then a cool thing would be to write a test that
> massages the summary.texi file into pairs of (header, prototype) and then
> generates C code including the header and re-declaring the prototype, so
> that we'll see errors when the prototypes in the manual don't match what's
> actually in the headers.

I'll try to find time to implement this in the next few months.

    Thanks,
      Mark