Re: [PATCH 00/20] man3: SYNOPSIS: Use 'restrict' in prototypes (batch 1)

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Hello Alex,

On 2/24/21 3:42 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> This are the first pages of man3 with 'restrict'.
> I'm sending you these already, becuase otherwise I'd accumulate
> too many patches in the end.

Thanks. I have applied all of these.

> I have fixed from the first page until ftw.3.
> 
> Spin off:
> 	I found different terms for parameters that refer to a same thing
> 	in different functions (usually a '[const] char *'):
> 	 - filename
> 	 - file
> 	 - path
> 	 - pathname
> 	 - Maybe others; I don't know
> 
> 	For 'FILE *' we have more or less the same,
> 	although this one is much more standard (>90% use 'stream'):
> 	 - stream
> 	 - streamp
> 	 - s
> 	 - fp
> 	 - file
> 	 - filehandle
> 	 - A few others in specific cases
> 
> 	What would you do about it?
I think it would be best to start a new thread for this...

Thanks,

Michael

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