Re: doc update

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> That is a bit open-ended, isn't it?
>
> Well, the list of remaining files with this wording is not too long.
> And we will certainly be interested to know when some other platforms
> implements the same function, because that means that the particular
> function becomes more mainstream and is a candidate for module in gnulib.
...
> I think we can update the doc of these functions one by one when we see some
> movement among Unices.

I got the impression that you noticed that the *_l functions were
present on Mac OS X 10.5 already?  That set is relatively small:

address@hidden:~/src/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions master$ ls *_l.texi
strptime_l.texi  strtold_l.texi  strtoull_l.texi  wcstod_l.texi   
wcstoll_l.texi   wcstoul_l.texi
strtod_l.texi    strtoll_l.texi  strtoul_l.texi   wcstof_l.texi   wcstol_l.texi
strtof_l.texi    strtol_l.texi   wcsftime_l.texi  wcstold_l.texi  
wcstoull_l.texi
address@hidden:~/src/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions master$ 

I could update these manuals, if indeed it is correct that Mac OS 10.5
has them.  I checked my ppc darwin 8.11.0 system, it had at least the
first one.  I can check the rest of them too unless you have already
done so.  The man page says they are in xlocale.h, but I guess your
recent fix to gnulib takes care of that, right?

I'm thinking of patches like this:

diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/strtof_l.texi 
b/doc/glibc-functions/strtof_l.texi
index 0c9df63..8a90181 100644
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/strtof_l.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/strtof_l.texi
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+This function is known to be present on all glibc platforms ando on
+Mac OS X 10.5.
+
address@hidden
 This function is missing on all non-glibc platforms:
 MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 
6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
 @end itemize

/Simon