Hi, Eugene!
On 9/14/21 10:30 AM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
I think, the split is codified in the standards[1][2][3][4][5] (so,
-lm/-lrt are expected to be supported by the compiler, per my
understanding, and providing the necessary -l* option will always
work, because it's codified in C standard, contrary to not providing
one) and the fact that glibc provides libm/librt symbols in -lc is
more akin to a bit of convenience (for application or glibc
developers, not sure which ones), and not something one should rely
upon.
Thanks for the references!
With those, I'll do a second round of changes (after all of the man[23]
pages are changed to use LIBRARY, which is the first round), checking
that the info in LIBRARY is accurate, and possibly documenting also the
standard if we were documenting a glibc extension. Now I'll assume the
man pages are correct, and only move around the info.
Cheers,
Alex
[1] https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/libc.html
[2] https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/libm.html
[3] https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/libpthread.html
[4] https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/libdl.html
[5] https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/librt.html
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
