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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS. - Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_ systems. - STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards. That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17 is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux', 'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs. - In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds. - In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I found are deprecated by the relevant standards. - A few other related changes... Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@@ -172,26 +172,19 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.ad
.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
.BR scalb ()
-is specified in POSIX.1-2001, but marked obsolescent.
-POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
-.BR scalb (),
+4.3BSD.
+Obsolescent in POSIX.1-2001;
+Removed in POSIX.1-2008,
recommending the use of
.BR scalbln (3),
.BR scalblnf (3),
or
.BR scalblnl (3)
instead.
-The
-.BR scalb ()
-function is from 4.3BSD.
-.PP
-.BR scalbf ()
-and
-.BR scalbl ()
-are unstandardized;
-.BR scalbf ()
-is nevertheless present on several other systems
.\" Looking at header files: scalbf() is present on the
.\" BSDs, Tru64, HP-UX 11, Irix 6.5; scalbl() is on HP-UX 11 and Tru64.
.SH BUGS