Re: Newlib's .texi docs - outdated version number/date

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 30 09:28, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Someone over here stumbled over the version/date mismatch between what is shown
> in the libc/libm manuals - and what is the current newlib release.
> 
> I think it makes sense to bump the version + date of the two files for the release,
> alongside the other version bumps done for the release. Namely, I think it should have
> been part of the commit:
>   commit 9e09d6ed83cce4777a5950412647ccc603040409 (tag: newlib-4.3.0)
>   Bump up newlib to 4.3.0
> 
> Currently, there is the following (I think the first one is okayish
> as it does not refer to the newlib version):
> 
> libgloss/doc/porting.texi
>   @subtitle Spring 1995
> 
> newlib/libc/libc.texi
>   @subtitle @code{libc} 2.5.0
>   @subtitle December 2016
> 
> newlib/libm/libm.texi
>   @subtitle @code{libm} 2.5.0
>   @subtitle December 2016
> 
> The last textual change to libc was mid 2021, the last janitorial/re-org changes were
> at the end of last year. Thus, blindly bumping the version/date seems to be at least more
> consistent than not updating it at all.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds good.  Please send a patch in git format-patch style.


Thanks,
Corinna
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