On 10/18/20 3:05 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/17/20 2:37 PM, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote: >> since POSIX.1-2008. >> +.PP >> +Prior to POSIX.1-2008, >> +the type was either an integer type or a real-floating type. > > No actual POSIXish implementation ever made it a real-floating type, though, and > that point should be made lest some conscientious programmer worry about a > nonexistent porting issue. Thanks for catching this, Paul! Alex, I suggest either we drop this patch, or you could reword as something like: "In POSIX.1-2001, the type was specified as being either an integer type or a real-floating type. However, existing implementations used an integer type, and POSIX.1-2008 tightened the specification to reflect this." Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
