On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote: > Linux supports some programming interfaces. Several functions are provided > as usual. Their application documentation is an ongoing development challenge. > > Now I would like to clarify possibilities for the specification of desired > information together with data types besides properties which are handled by > the programming language “C” so far. > It seems that no customised attributes are supported at the moment. > Thus I imagine to specify helpful annotations as macros. > > Example: > Some functions allocate resources to which a pointer (or handle) is returned. > I would find it nice then if such a pointer would contain also the background > information by which functions the resource should usually be released. > > Can it become easier to determine such data? Markus, It's unclear to me what you are requesting/proposing? Can you be a bit more concrete? - Ted
