man stdint.h

man stdint.h

[Martin Gebert]

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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Re: man stdint.h

[Mike Frysinger]

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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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Re: man stdint.h

[Martin Gebert]

>> 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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Re: man stdint.h

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Friday 13 November 2009 10:53:05 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
> 
> 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.

http://austingroupbugs.net/
-mike

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Re: man stdint.h

[Petr Baudis]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 November 2009 10:53:05 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
> > 
> > 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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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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That's the problem, they need to read them. -- Don Knuth
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Re: man stdint.h

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Friday 13 November 2009 11:41:33 Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 13 November 2009 10:53:05 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
> > >
> > > 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.

indeed.  i misread the original report, thanks for pointing it out.
-mike

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