Just forwarding a conversation to the list
On 10/21/21 11:20 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
Hello Jens,
On 10/21/21 11:03 AM, Jₑₙₛ Gustedt wrote:
Hello Alejandro,
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:27:48 +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
I rethinked it a bit after seeing pipe(2) again. I never understood
why 'static' should be needed at all in an array parameter. The
standard could have also accepted [26] as requiring at least 26
elements in the array, without requiring the use of static.
That's just speculation. They didn't, so for the compiler the
expression can just be ignore.
Since static is not required to give a diagnostic, I don't see a real
difference. Both can be ignored. But yes, that's speculating, and
maybe I should probably propose to the committee having the same
requirements for [26] as for [static 26] for C3X, and see what they come
up with.
With what we have `static` conveys the
intent, and we should stick to that, I think.
Yes, maybe sticking to the standard will be better.
There
may be reasons for that that I ignore, of course; maybe backwards
compatibility.... But since the man-pages can present the same
information without the static keyword, I'll edit my patches to just
use [restrict 26], instead of [static restrict 26], which is more
compact.
For the man pages that may be ok, but I still prefer that the headers
in the man page convey exactly the same normative information as the
specification of the standard.
Okay. That makes sense.
BTW, I just noticed that these emails were offlist. If you want to
keep them offlist, I'l do so, but we typically CC the list to have
open discussions. If you give me permission, I'll forward these
emails to the mailing lists.
Do as you feel, no problem with me. I just didn't want to "fall in
your back" on a public list for which I don't have an idea of their
actual dialogue culture.
Thanks!
It's a small list with 2 maintainers and just a handful of other typical
contributors. Typically, very nice compared to other lists, IMHO :)
And BTW, thanks also for your many StackOverflow contributions! They
have been very helpful to me :-)
Thanks
Jₑₙₛ
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
