From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 24 9:45:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC6737B409 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 49A499B08; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:44:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:44:32 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "types" man page Message-ID: <20011024114432.K25747@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , arch@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:43:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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? Yes. :) > 2) in what section would such a man page belong? 7 or 9? -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message