Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for that suggestion and the work in generating that nice patch. One general comment is that there is a lot of duplicate text that perhaps could simply be replaced by an index. E.g., instead of this: @item btowc On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Ben Pfaff wrote: > I did some proofreading and found some minor things to point out. Thanks. I'm fixing most of these. > Should "b" be @samp{b}? @code{"b"} is better here: the 'b' must be part of C string. > > + On Windows, this function doesn't support the @code{'} flag and the > > @code{hh},

Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > so here we go, quickly: Thanks, Ralf, for proofreading. I've integrated many of your remarks. > - Should the entries be indexed? I would prefer so. Yes, certainly. Probably this is also a good occasion to split the "program index" and the "function / header index". IMO

Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Bruno, that's great work. I did some proofreading and found some minor things to point out. Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + @code{basename} assumes file names in POSIX syntax; it does not with file > + names in Windows syntax. "...does not" work "with file..." > + @item btowc > +

Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:13:52PM CEST: > > 2) Who should maintain this section in the future? > > Why does the section currently have only 20 entries, when an up-to-date > list of portability problems has more than 200 entries? I think the answer > is that the au

Re: function portability documentation

2006-05-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Inspired by Paul Eggert's new chapter about "Portable C and C++ Programming", > I went out and collected portability notes and pitfall reminders for over > 200 among the 1116 POSIX functions. (Attached.) Thanks, this seems incredibly useful! Per