standards/59960: wc - missing information in man file

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>Number:         59960
>Category:       standards
>Synopsis:       wc - missing information in man file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    standards-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 02 20:35:00 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Sebastian RItter
>Release:        
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
I read the man page and the source code.
>Description:
The man page of wc tool do not note - in different to FreeBSD - that the only last "m or c" flag wins the race. 

The source code do it:

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/1d0f224e98c38ff44b6e8b5371ffa141595a286c/usr.bin/wc/wc.c#L93 

...
		case 'm':
			dochar = true;
			dobyte = 0;
			break;
		case 'c':
			dochar = 0;
			dobyte = true;
			break;


The NetBSD documentation writes (https://man.netbsd.org/wc.1):

The following options are available:
...
     -c      The number of bytes in each input file is written to the standard
             output.

     -m      The number of characters in each input file is written to the
             standard output.
...
>How-To-Repeat:
RTFM and source code
>Fix:
Use FreeBSD note:

at -c: This will cancel out any prior usage of the -m option.
at -m This will cancel out any prior usage of the -c option.

or

implementation like GNU wc and remove the cancelation.