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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:54:35 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc atol.3 atoll.c src/include stdlib.h
Message-ID:  <20011127225435.A14652@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011128015913.GA15302@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:59:13AM %2B0300
References:  <200111280122.fAS1M8U42082@freefall.freebsd.org> <200111280124.fAS1OUM39383@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011128013700.GB15066@nagual.pp.ru> <200111280155.RAA02596@windsor.research.att.com> <20011128015913.GA15302@nagual.pp.ru>

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Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 17:55:48 -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
> > Sure, and it more or less mirrors what I had in my tree (note that I'm
> > signed up for atoll on the c99 project page), except I chose to create
> > a seperate atoll.3 to parallel with atoi.3/atol.3 being seperate.
> 
> I don't think that it deserves separated manpage since they belongs to the
> same group. They are not separated in POSIX too.

This very issue was recently discussed on -standards, with regards to
the various div() and abs() functions.  The conclusion was that
separate manuals yield higher quality libraries.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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