On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 05:06:27PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > > Can we not just annotate each header listed with the originating > > > standard, say: > > > > > > <stddef.h> (C) > > > > > > <sys/types.h> (POSIX) > > > ... (POSIX) > > > ... > > > > That may be a good idea; I've thought about doing that in the past; > > but also thought that it's still too much noise. > > Let's see what others think about it. > > My thought is that maybe we can add this kind of info later, > providing we find a concise way to do it. But, for now, already > the info in the page is useful as is, and I don't want to stop > the momentum of Alex's work. So, for now, I think let's carry > on the current style. > > > The downside is that it adds a lot of lines, > > being harder to read for types with too many headers (e.g., size_t). > > That is also my concern. OK, that's fair -- I agree that the page makes a valuable contribution already, so it makes sense to merge it in its current form and think about improvements (if any are warranted) afterward. Apologies for the noise! Cheers ---Dave
