Alejandro Colomar writes: > Hi Joseph, > >> Date: 2026-07-31 21:23:35+0000 >> From: Joseph Myers >> >> I think it's irresponsible to use the man-pages project to promote >> personal idiosyncratic ideas like this in preference to what's been the >> standard location of functions since 1989. >> >> I'd rather we add a mandatory deprecation warning to memory.h in glibc. > > I hope you don't; it'd be a gratuitous breaking change. > Yet this change has the same effect, just people will see it themselves rather than the compiler telling them, and go around sending patches to change it. The man pages should reflect what the standard currently says, not what you'd like it to say. We had the same problem with e.g. stripping "C89" everywhere. People want it to reflect what the standard says. > > Have a lovely night! > Alex sam