Re: [PATCH 1/2] man/man3/{mem,strn}*(): SYNOPSIS, STANDARDS: Document these as provided by <memory.h>

Sam James <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:54:27 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.linux.man,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
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Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Joseph,
>
>> Date: 2026-07-31 21:23:35+0000
>> From: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>
>>
>> I think it's irresponsible to use the man-pages project to promote 
>> personal idiosyncratic ideas like this in preference to what's been the 
>> standard location of functions since 1989.
>> 
>> I'd rather we add a mandatory deprecation warning to memory.h in glibc.
>
> I hope you don't; it'd be a gratuitous breaking change.
>

Yet this change has the same effect, just people will see it themselves
rather than the compiler telling them, and go around sending patches to
change it.

The man pages should reflect what the standard currently says, not what
you'd like it to say. We had the same problem with e.g. stripping "C89"
everywhere. People want it to reflect what the standard says.

>
> Have a lovely night!
> Alex

sam

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