Hi Brian, On 3/15/23 17:51, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2023-03-15 06:30, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> On 3/14/23 06:39, Oskari Pirhonen wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 13:00:52 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>>>> <https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.txt> >>>>>> I suggest you download that file, and use a function like this: >>>>>> $ stdc89() { grep "[[:alpha:]] \**\b$1([[:alnum:]*,. ]*);" /path/to/c89-draft.txt; } >>>>>> $ stdc89 printf >>>>>> int printf(const char *format, ...); >>>>>> int printf(const char *format, ...); > >>>>> I gave this a quick spin and it seems to work decently well. So thanks >>>>> for that. > >>>>> It's still not quite as nice as having C89 mentioned in >>>>> STANDARDS, and couldn't this be leveraged to fix up the inconsistencies >>>>> you mentioned earlier? > >>> Looking at the site you linked to for the c89-draft.txt, there's also >>> C99, C11, and C2x. With yet some more work, it'd be possible to have >>> equivalent functions for those standards as well. They could even be >>> combined to create an "std-diff" tool to give, eg, new "str*" functions >>> introduced in C89 -> C99. >>> Perhaps such a tool already exists, but I thought it worth mentioning >>> here in case anyone reading this gets inspired to write it. I've added >>> it to my (ever growing) TODO list, but don't know when I might get >>> around to actually giving it a go. > >> Interesting idea. Sounds fun to do. I'll check if we can redistribute >> the drafts of the standard in the Linux man-pages repo. If so, we could >> have the standard .txt files in some directory inside the repo, and then >> have a script that reads those files. > > I have an archive of many drafts including (so far): > > 1.5M Sep 10 1998 N0843-C1999-CD-1998-08.pdf > 3.4M May 6 2005 N1124-C1999+TC2-CD-2005-05.pdf > 3.7M Sep 8 2007 N1256-C1999+TC3-CD-2007-09.pdf > 1.7M Apr 12 2011 N1570-C201X-CD-2011-04.pdf > 2.3M Oct 9 2017 N2176-C2017-CD-2017-10.pdf > 6.7M Jan 24 11:37 N3088-C2023-CD1-2023-01.pdf > > which can be downloaded as: > > https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n####.pdf Do you know if we can distribute them? which license applied to them? I'm worried that some distros are very strict in what can be distributed in a package (e.g., Fedora, Debian (main)). There were issues with man-pages-posix in the past. Should we maybe open a separate project iso-c-drafts that installs drafts of the ISO C standards and maybe some scripts that will be useful with them? > > Package poppler contains pdftotext which with -layout produces easily searchable > text files. Nice. Thanks, Alex
