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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>,
	Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr>
Cc: "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	Glibc <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	"mtk.manpages@gmail.com" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: AW: [PATCH 2/2] ctime.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, timegm.3: Add [[gnu::nonnull]] to <time.h> prototypes
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:54:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9f0dc6d-995f-b263-4b1e-3861dc678714@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d015464c-714d-771e-6829-c1032efab15d@cs.ucla.edu>

On 10/21/21 7:40 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> "f (...)" is hardwired into people's brains for function calls, and we 
> shouldn't put anything between the "f" and the "(" to confuse this 
> longstanding syntactic pattern. So this stuff should go at the start of 
> the declaration, not after the identifier.

Yup.

Thanks,

Alex


-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-20 20:22 [PATCH 1/2] ctime.3: Use VLA notation for [as]ctime_r() buffer Alejandro Colomar
2021-10-20 20:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] ctime.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, timegm.3: Add [[gnu::nonnull]] to <time.h> prototypes Alejandro Colomar
2021-10-21  8:13   ` AW: " Walter Harms
2021-10-21  9:01     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-21 17:40       ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-21 20:54         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
     [not found] ` <20211021092746.78bc82f8@inria.fr>
2021-10-21  9:12   ` [PATCH 1/2] ctime.3: Use VLA notation for [as]ctime_r() buffer Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
     [not found]   ` <20c1e58b-ba2b-f9df-ab1f-f80725414cf5@gmail.com>
2021-10-21  9:13     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
     [not found]     ` <5782a3ea-9774-3acb-e365-1e4d03ed3358@gmail.com>
2021-10-21  9:14       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
     [not found]       ` <20211021110311.52541d69@inria.fr>
     [not found]         ` <ec620c5e-0952-fe16-353c-0210d3bea6e8@gmail.com>
2021-10-21  9:27           ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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