mwoehlke wrote:
mwoehlke wrote:
I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened
it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in
troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1
pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?
I am not going to submit a "patch" on this mess. If I do anything with
it, I am going to submit a proper troff document. Given how much work
I would have to do to fix the existing page, I am much more inclined
to take my printf.3 from my Linux box and adjust it into consistency
with Cygwin's printf() instead. I'm willing to clean up the existing
manpage, but I think the style of the Linux manpage would be an
improvement (what we have looks like it came from HP-UX or something).
Any opinions?
Ok, no doubt this manpage needs to be overhauled. I am going from the
Linux page and finding several omissions in the one currently in Cygwin
("%F", as well as "%ll?").
WCTS, does anyone know to what extent locale stuff is supported? The
"%'" modifier? "%*d", etc? "%$1d", etc? "%*1$d", etc?
Ok, experimenting shows that all of the above EXCEPT "%'" are supported
(no great surprise). However, I also noticed that "%a", which is
required by C99, is not supported?
I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes
to cygwin.patches?
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