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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:32:19 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > > Here's a doc patch that was recently tossed around:  Write a
> > > description of the C language (not the library) itself.
> >
> > This is a little pedantic: Sure, but that's not specific to DJGPP is
> > it?
> 
> Not DJGPP specific, but GNU C and GNU C++ add features on top of
> ANSI C and ANSI C++.  And language documentation is one thing I missed
> when I migrated (buzzword compliant ;-) from Turbo C++ 3 to DJGPP.

The gcc info docs do have some detail on things like using __attribute__
to get printf-style format checking. A document that cross-references to
these would certainly be useful - a top-level list of GNU extensions to
ANSI C. As for language documentation - I guess even a list of URLs to C
language documents on the web would be useful (@uref in texinfo).

I was initially skeptical, but I see this could be useful now. Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
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