From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 24 9:43:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1B337B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D96D114C2E; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:43:19 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: "types" man page From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 Oct 2001 18:43:19 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been toying with the idea of creating a "types" man page that lists common scalar and pointer types in FreeBSD (including standard C types). For every type, the man page would indicate: - the name (duh) - what header(s) (if any) to include to define it - width on all supported platforms - signedness - equivalence with other types - appropriate format specifier and cast to use for printf()ing variables of that type portably. What I'm wondering is: 1) does anybody else but me think that this would be a good idea? 2) in what section would such a man page belong? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message