Ingo Schwarze writes: > Hi Jason, > > Jason McIntyre wrote on Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 07:17:29AM +0100: > > > the 2/3 pages should really reference the most recent standards too. > > it's just the work hasn;t been done. > > According to my understanding, the difference in policy is deliberate. > Some people may want to write C code according to specific language > standards, so knowing that a feature is available in -ansiC is > useful even if it is also available in -p1003.1-2008. In contrast, > writing shell scripts according to historic POSIX versions wouldn't > really make sense.
My memory of the last time we had this discussion (documenting the multibyte functions if I recall correctly) is the same as jmc's, that it would be preferable to target a single standard but nobody has sat down and done the work.
