On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 12:31, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 12:49, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 09:28, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > > wrote: > > > However, it might be good that someone starts a page called > > > 'type_qualifiers(7)' or something like that. > > > > Who is this for? Who is trying to learn C from man pages? Should > > somebody stop them? > > Yes, I think so. To add context, Alex has been doing a lot of work to > build up the new system_data_types(7) page [1], which I think is > especially useful for the POSIX system data types that are used with > various APIs.
It's definitely useful for types like struct siginfo_t and struct timeval, which aren't in C. Trying to document C seems like a huge task, ill-suited for man-pages, and not worth the effort. Maybe some people prefer man pages, but for everybody else https://en.cppreference.com/w/c already exists and seems like a better use of time.
