On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@anjbe.name> wrote:
> From wcrtomb(3):
>
>      The wcrtomb() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995 (``ISO C90,
>      Amendment 1'').  The restrict qualifier is added at ISO/IEC 9899/1999
>      (``ISO C99'').
>
> This wording is confusing. Is it implying that we don't use a restrict
> qualifier? (We do.)
>
> If a standard changes, do we have to document how the old standard
> differs from what we currently follow? That seems awfully complicated.
> Can we just document the latest standard, or "the earliest standard
> that doesn't appreciably differ from the latest standard"?
>
> What's the guiding practice here?

I agree.

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