newlib ndbm documentation

Vaibhav Gupta vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 16:42:59 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 8:57 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just a note to remind you that we need to find a way to get the ndbm
> documentation into newlib. Since they put a marked up man page at the top
> of the .c file, I expect there are only two choices.
>
> (1) Put it at the top of ndbm.c as expected
> (2) Leave ndbm.c as found and add ndbm_doc.c
>
> As much as I don't like modifying a standard merged file, I suspect (1) is
> more acceptable to the newlib community.
>
> In both solutions, the contents of this file have to be converted to
> newlib markup.
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/db/man/dbm.3
>
> Thoughts
>
Let's move with 1st option. I will need to find about this method and
newlib markup. I will send a patch on devel for verification.

Vaibhav Gupta

>
> --joel
>
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