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Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:20:58 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Confusing portability statements in libc reference?
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Yesterday I looked at this info page:

info libc alpha sigaction

The portability is shown as:

not ANSI, POSIX

My first thought was that this was neither ANSI nor POSIX, but it is
POSIX. This could be confusing. I think that the portability info produced
should be either:

1. sorted to group all nots onto one line & all "yes" cases on another
line;
2. split across multiple lines (one case/lines);
3. separated by semi-colons.

Could anyone else be confused by this, or is it just me? ;)

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]

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