Re: reallocarr(3) cleanup

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:12:15AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
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> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 11:00 PM
> > From: "Joerg Sonnenberger" <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> > To: tech-userlevel%NetBSD.org@localhost
> > Subject: Re: reallocarr(3) cleanup
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:56:35PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > > - merge reallocarr.3 to malloc.3 for consistency,
> > 
> > No. Don't put standard and non-standard functions in the same man page.
> > 
> This is actually in the namespace of standard NetBSD functions.
> For this reason I removed occurrences of reallocarray(3) from it (they were in reallocarr(3)).
> 
> I was following the rule of strtol(3), which includes strtoi(3).

That's a bug then. While it is acceptable for C99 and POSIX functions to
co-inhabit the same man page, it is really unhelpful otherwise. That
leads to accidental use in portable contexts, forcing everyone to accept
the functions.

Joerg