From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:41:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260221174142.5e6xufffrawahxsp@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b2c4b363f656b51b19d23eec172b3825e931d8c.1771686088.git.alx@kernel.org>
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Hi Alex,
At 2026-02-21T16:02:52+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> +.SH RETURN VALUE
> +.IR s+strlen(s) .
Too cute, in my opinion. Use English. :)
C novices struggle with pointer arithmetic as it is. (Even non-novices
can, when working with exotic architectures with multiple memory models
like the x86's historical--and thankfully near-forgotten--`near` and
`far`. Pointer arithmetic in the former can, if my vague recollection
is correct, do surprising stuff like wrap around a 64 KiB memory segment
without causing a fault.)
I assume that the string library reforms you're pursuing are intended in
part to be adopted by newcomers to C. Avoiding cleverness when
presenting new interfaces can make them less scary.
Regards,
Branden
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-21 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-21 15:02 [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:02 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 17:41 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2026-02-21 19:56 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2026-02-21 20:45 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:05 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-02-21 20:55 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 1:48 ` Paul Eggert
2026-02-22 11:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 13:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 14:10 ` Bruno Haible
2026-02-22 14:19 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 14:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:04 ` [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 " Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar
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