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Re: Don't document the types of standard typedefs
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:24:21 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Don't document the types of standard typedefs
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202270030480.30479@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><4F4AF0BB.3000002@cs.ucla.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202271340590.12490@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><4F4BB97B.9090903@cs.ucla.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202281517100.14043@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><4F4DF60C.2070906@cs.ucla.edu>
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 07:17 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > Here is a revised patch describing the properties of these types (both
> > generic from POSIX, and specific to the GNU C Library) but not exact
> > equivalences.
> >
> > 2012-02-28 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> >
> > * manual/filesys.texi (mode_t): Describe constraints on size and
> > signedness, not exact equivalence to a particular type.
> > (ino_t): Likewise.
> > (ino64_t): Likewise.
> > (dev_t): Likewise.
> > (nlink_t): Likewise.
> > (blkcnt_t): Likewise.
> > (blkcnt64_t): Likewise.
> > * manual/llio.texi (off_t): Likewise.
>
> Thanks, I went over that patch and it looks good.
I've now committed this patch.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com