From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>,
Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>,
JeanHeyd Meneide <wg14@soasis.org>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:25:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221110222540.as3jrjdzxsnot3zm@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8cca79d4-f31d-1508-0775-cef54e3755c1@gmail.com>
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Hi Alex,
At 2022-11-10T11:59:02+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > You know what Moltke said about plans and contact with the enemy.
> > For one thing, I think the Linux kernel will move too fast to permit
> > such a leisurely cadence.
>
> Heh, at this point, I burnt my ships, by using enhanced VLA syntax.
> If I release that before GCC, I'm expecting to see an avalanche of
> reports about it (and I also expect that GCC and forums will receive a
> similar ammount). So yes, I expect to wait some longish time.
Hah, you rebutted my Moltke with your namesake. You understand that I'm
obligated to spring a reference to the Battle of Lepanto or something on
you at some point.
> > Also, as soon as Bertrand and I can get groff 1.23 out[1], I am
> > hoping you will, shortly thereafter, migrate to the new `MR` macro.
>
> Not as soon as it gets released, because I expect (at least a decent
> amount of) contributors to be able to read the pages to which they
> contribute to,
Laggardly adopters can always put this in man.local.
.if !d MR \{\
. de MR
. IR \\$1 (\\$2)\\$3
. .
.\}
> but as soon as it makes it into Debian stable, yes, that's in my
> plans. So, if you make it before the freeze, that means around a
> couple of months from now.
Yes. It is a major personal goal to get groff 1.23 into Debian
bookworm.
> > <tents fingers, laughs villainously>
>
> <also tents fingers, laughs villainously>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhH2egTLohM
Regards,
Branden
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2022-09-02 21:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 12:47 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 13:29 ` Ingo Schwarze
2022-09-03 15:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 13:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 14:35 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 14:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-03 15:31 ` Martin Uecker
2022-09-03 20:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-05 14:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 0:06 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 0:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 1:33 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 1:39 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 6:21 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-10 10:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 23:19 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-10 23:28 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-11 19:52 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-12 1:09 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 7:24 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-12 12:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 12:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 13:03 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 13:40 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 13:58 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 14:54 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 15:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 17:02 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 17:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-12 15:56 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 13:19 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 13:33 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 14:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 14:58 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 15:15 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 15:32 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-13 16:25 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:28 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 16:56 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 19:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-14 18:13 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-28 22:59 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-28 23:18 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 0:05 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-29 14:58 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-29 15:17 ` Uecker, Martin
2022-11-29 15:44 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-29 16:58 ` Uecker, Martin
2022-11-29 17:28 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 16:49 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-29 16:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-29 17:00 ` Martin Uecker
2022-11-29 17:19 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-29 17:29 ` Alex Colomar
2022-12-03 21:03 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-03 21:13 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-12-03 21:15 ` Martin Uecker
2022-12-03 21:18 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-06 2:08 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-14 17:52 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-14 17:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-14 18:26 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-28 23:02 ` Alex Colomar
2022-11-10 9:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-10 10:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-10 22:25 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
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