Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/09/14:10:41
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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