Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:39:58 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: library documentation question Message-ID: <199912272239.XAA11523@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Michael Lucas wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > I've noticed that parts of the standard C library documentation appear > to be missing on my FreeBSD box. I think it should be rather complete. > For example, I can do a "man 3 printf" and get the documentation. A > "man 3 sizeof" gives me nothing, however. That's because "sizeof" is not a library function. It's a C operator. For similar reasons, there are no manual pages on "int" or "while" etc. ;-) I'd recommend that you get a good book on ANSI C, for example "Kernighan / Ritchie" v2. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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