On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2014 14:20:50 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> /* According to the ISO C standard, casting between function >> pointers and 'void *', as done above, produces undefined results. >> POSIX.1-2003 and POSIX.1-2008 accepted this state of affairs and >> proposed the following workaround: >> >> *(void **) (&cosine) = dlsym(handle, "cos"); >> >> This (clumsy) cast conforms with ISO C standard and will avoid >> any compiler warnings. > > "with the ISO C standard" Thanks. >> The 2013 Technical Corrigendum to POSIX.1-2008 (a.k.a. >> POSIX.1-2013) > > i thought you wanted to avoid "a.k.a." ? or does that not apply to > parenthetical asides too ? > > should all these random preferences be added in man-pages(7) ? off the top of > my head: > - userspace vs user space vs user-space > - a.k.a. / e.g. / i.e. usage > - NUL usage (or lack thereof) > - HISTORY should be a .SS of NOTES > - wrapping based on periods/commas > - preference for 75 cols It's one of those things that's been on my TODO list for an age. I've made a start now, by creating a STYLE GUIDE section in man-page(7). > some of these could even be checks added to scripts/ ... Yes, one day... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
