man stdint.h
Hi Michael,
I just found this ambiguities in stdint.h(0p) (from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):
"An N-bit signed type has values in the range -2**N-1 or 1-2**N-1 to 2**N-1-1, while an N-bit unsigned type has values in the range 0 to 2**N-1."
IMHO this should be "to (2**N-1)-1" for signed ints, and "to (2**N)-1" for unsigned. Yet I'm not sure about the precedence of the ** operator, as it is not defined for C/C++, so some more parenthesis around the exponents should make this clear.
Martin
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Quoted 2 lines · On Friday 13 November 2009 05:02:42 Martin Gebert wrote:
I just found this ambiguities in
stdint.h(0p)(from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):
the posix man pages are not maintained here. they're maintained by the austin/posix group.
-mike
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I just found this ambiguities in
stdint.h(0p)(from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):the posix man pages are not maintained here. they're maintained by the austin/posix group
FYI, Gentoo portage reports http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ as the homepage for this package, which finally redirects bug reports to you. I'm still trying to find a contact to POSIX/Austin...
Martin
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Quoted 9 lines · On Friday 13 November 2009 10:53:05 Martin Gebert wrote:
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I just found this ambiguities in
stdint.h(0p)(from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):the posix man pages are not maintained here. they're maintained by the austin/posix group
FYI, Gentoo portage reports http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ as the homepage for this package, which finally redirects bug reports to you. I'm still trying to find a contact to POSIX/Austin...
that's because this place converts the posix pages into man page form. but it doesnt manage the actual content.
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Quoted 6 lines · On Friday 13 November 2009 10:53:05 Martin Gebert wrote:
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I just found this ambiguities in
stdint.h(0p)(from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):the posix man pages are not maintained here. they're maintained by the austin/posix group
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FYI, Gentoo portage reports http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ as the homepage for this package, which finally redirects bug reports to you. I'm still trying to find a contact to POSIX/Austin...
that's because this place converts the posix pages into man page form. but it doesnt manage the actual content.
But actually, the bug reported here _is_ a conversion issue - the superscript is transcribed inline without any delimitation, while it should probably have additional parentheses. The original has no issue since the proper part of the formula is superscripted unambiguously.
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Quoted 12 lines · On Friday 13 November 2009 11:41:33 Petr Baudis wrote:
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I just found this ambiguities in
stdint.h(0p)(from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system):the posix man pages are not maintained here. they're maintained by the austin/posix group
FYI, Gentoo portage reports http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ as the homepage for this package, which finally redirects bug reports to you. I'm still trying to find a contact to POSIX/Austin...
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that's because this place converts the posix pages into man page form. but it doesnt manage the actual content.
But actually, the bug reported here _is_ a conversion issue - the superscript is transcribed inline without any delimitation, while it should probably have additional parentheses. The original has no issue since the proper part of the formula is superscripted unambiguously.
indeed. i misread the original report, thanks for pointing it out. -mike