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Subject: Re: Confusing portability statements in libc reference?
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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>
> 
> 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? ;)

You are the first one to complain ;-).

However, the original intent was to produce a @multitable from
@portability, since this information is really a table where the first
row enumerates all the standards, and the second row says YES or NO.

We stopped short of that because the then-current version of texi2html
didn't support @multitable (DJ uses texi2html to produce the on-line
version of the docs accessible from www.delorie.com/djgpp/docs/).
I think texi2html does support @multitable now, so this could be
changed for the next version of DJGPP.  Any takers?