Hi Joseph,
On 10/29/21 18:31, Joseph Myers wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
The broader context is that I was trying to make the deprecation notices more
consistent in the Linux manpages, by using the [[deprecated]] attribute where
appropriate. While doing that, I found a few cases where the
deprecation/obsoletion is not so clear to me, such as this one
([as]ctime[_r](3) is another one, since it is deprecated by POSIX, but not by
the C standard, but I'll start a different thread with that; and isascii(3) is
See the discussion of deprecation starting with
<https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X
has also deprecated those functions). The comments in that thread
supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a
patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using
those functions.
Thanks. The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596. Is there any
newer draft that I can consult for these things? I see many proposals,
but it's difficult to know which have been accepted and which not
without an actual recent draft of the standard.
Cheers,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
