Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:39:58 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: library documentation question Message-ID: <199912272239.XAA11523@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Michael Lucas wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> I've noticed that parts of the standard C library documentation appear
> to be missing on my FreeBSD box.
I think it should be rather complete.
> For example, I can do a "man 3 printf" and get the documentation. A
> "man 3 sizeof" gives me nothing, however.
That's because "sizeof" is not a library function. It's a
C operator. For similar reasons, there are no manual pages
on "int" or "while" etc. ;-)
I'd recommend that you get a good book on ANSI C, for example
"Kernighan / Ritchie" v2.
Regards
Oliver
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