On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:00:53PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:44:27PM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: >>> Module Name: src >>> Committed By: jruoho >>> Date: Mon Sep 12 14:44:27 UTC 2011 >>> >>> Modified Files: >>> src/lib/libm/man: ldexp.3 >>> >>> Log Message: >>> Update and improve, and note that the long double variant is not supported. >> >> Can we please *not* add such notes? They don't really add value, the >> lack of a long double prototype at the beginning of the man page is >> indicator enough. They do add just another thing to keep track of when >> adding the support though. > > Fair enough. But I think it is a BUG worth mentioning when an operating > system does not support standard C.
Then create a bunch of MLINKS to a generic 'This function isn't supported' page. Since the implementors would need to create a real man page or real link, this seems to be to be less likely to cause confusion than notes everywhere that grow stale. Warner
