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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-09-27 06:20:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-09-27 06:20:10 -0700 |
| commit | b67341dde811a0fb9fbd41c2f65bdd5dfa6da142 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/standards.texi b/doc/standards.texi index 38d2c21f64..54336c6bc2 100644 --- a/doc/standards.texi +++ b/doc/standards.texi @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ @setfilename standards.info @settitle GNU Coding Standards @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file: -@set lastupdate August 1, 2011 +@set lastupdate September 25, 2011 @c %**end of header @dircategory GNU organization @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ prohibited. How silly! GCC implements many extensions, some of which were later adopted as part of the standard. If you want these constructs to give an error message as ``required'' by the standard, you must specify @samp{--pedantic}, which was implemented only so that -we can say ``GCC is a 100% implementation of the standard,'' not +we can say ``GCC is a 100% implementation of the standard'', not because there is any reason to actually use it. POSIX.2 specifies that @samp{df} and @samp{du} must output sizes by @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ options with ordinary arguments. This minor incompatibility with POSIX is never a problem in practice, and it is very useful. In particular, don't reject a new feature, or remove an old one, -merely because a standard says it is ``forbidden'' or ``deprecated.'' +merely because a standard says it is ``forbidden'' or ``deprecated''. @node Semantics @@ -3226,10 +3226,11 @@ doing the job in another way using @code{read} and @code{write}. The reason this precaution is needed is that the GNU kernel (the HURD) provides a user-extensible file system, in which there can be many -different kinds of ``ordinary files.'' Many of them support +different kinds of ``ordinary files''. Many of them support @code{mmap}, but some do not. It is important to make programs handle all these kinds of files. + @node Documentation @chapter Documenting Programs @cindex documentation |