Re: mandoc: -Tlint: spurious warning about empty IP macro

Hi Alex, At 2022-11-10T00:31:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > mandoc: man2/mount_setattr.2:644:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: > IP empty I suspect this warning did not anticipate that a paragraphing macro might be used solely for its spacing function, which is not redundant with an adja

sizeof in Macros. (Was: Specifying dependencies more clearly)

Howdy Alejandro, > > Okay, here we go for a rant. Consider the cost of lost opportunities. > Since I wrote the code from memory, I had a few typos, but the idea > was there... > > >     typedef struct { > >     size_t  length; > >     u_char  *start; > >     } str_t; > > > >     #d

Re: Subsections are not recognized

Hi Alex, At 2022-11-09T23:46:43+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I remember having reported this, but can't seem to find the report. > Just to make sure it's not forgotten before 1.23.0, I'll remind about > it: > > $ make lint-man V=1 > LINT (groff) tmp/lint/man2type/open_how.2type.lint-man.grof

Re: Subsections are not recognized

Hi Branden! On 11/10/22 10:31, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi Alex, At 2022-11-09T23:46:43+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: I remember having reported this, but can't seem to find the report. Just to make sure it's not forgotten before 1.23.0, I'll remind about it: $ make lint-man V=1 LINT (grof

Re: mandoc: -Tlint: spurious warning about empty IP macro

On 11/10/22 09:56, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2022-11-10T00:31:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: mandoc: man2/mount_setattr.2:644:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: IP empty I suspect this warning did not anticipate that a paragraphing macro might be used solely for its spacing functio

MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

Of course I forgot to rename the title, and to agg groff@. Nice. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:47:38 +0100 From: Alejandro Colomar To: G. Branden Robinson CC: Ingo Schwarze , li

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

Hi Branden, Another interesting thing is what to do here: $ sed -n 319,320p man2/timerfd_create.2 .TP .BR poll "(2), " select "(2) (and similar)" Can I have multiple input lines as the tag for a TP? How to put 2 MR references in there? Cheers, Alex --

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

On 11/10/22 19:11, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi Branden, Another interesting thing is what to do here: $ sed -n 319,320p man2/timerfd_create.2 .TP .BR poll "(2), " select "(2) (and similar)" Can I have multiple input lines as the tag for a TP?  How to put 2 MR references in there? Or mayb

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

Hi Branden, On 11/10/22 19:04, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Of course I forgot to rename the title, and to agg groff@.  Nice. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:47:38 +0100 From: Alejandr

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

On 11/10/22 20:37, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi Branden, On 11/10/22 19:04, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Of course I forgot to rename the title, and to agg groff@.  Nice. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters Date:

Pascal rides again (was: Specifying dependencies more clearly)

(Some of this is off-topic for the groff list.) Hi Alex, At 2022-11-08T22:05:25+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Okay, here we go for a rant. > > Let's say there's some software with cowboy programmers, which has > things like: > > typedef struct { > size_t length; > u_char

Re: mandoc: -Tlint: spurious warning about empty IP macro

Hi Alex, At 2022-11-10T11:40:26+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 11/10/22 09:56, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Not really. .P (or .PP, which I did try) would break the formatting. > Let's show a bit mre of the current page: > >• The underlying filesystem must support ID‐mapped mounts.

build, BuildFoundries, and gropdf changes coming

Hi all, As alluded to in my last message to Alex... Deri's improvement of gropdf's font file resolution procedure for embedded fonts[1] has pulled on a loose thread and is having interesting results. Here are some selected commits from my working copy. The creation of the compiled groff man pag

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

Hi Alex, At 2022-11-10T19:04:46+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Of course I forgot to rename the title, and to agg groff@. Nice. It gave me time to reply to this one. :) > On 11/10/22 11:59, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I won't be applying the patch now, to avoid contributors seeing people > su

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

Hi Branden, On 11/10/22 23:55, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi Alex, At 2022-11-10T19:04:46+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Of course I forgot to rename the title, and to agg groff@. Nice. It gave me time to reply to this one. :) :) [...] The big issue is that your MR doesn't support lea

Re: Pascal rides again (was: Specifying dependencies more clearly)

On 11/10/22 22:19, G. Branden Robinson wrote: (Some of this is off-topic for the groff list.) Hi Branden, Hi Alex, At 2022-11-08T22:05:25+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Okay, here we go for a rant. Let's say there's some software with cowboy programmers, which has things like: typed

Re: Pascal rides again (was: Specifying dependencies more clearly)

On 11/11/22 03:09, Alejandro Colomar wrote: On 11/10/22 22:19, G. Branden Robinson wrote: especially when these are used by the naïve or slack-jawed.[1] I developed this stpecpy()[1] to fix this performance problem present in strlcpy(3).  I plan to start using it (or similar ones adapted to t

Re: Pascal rides again (was: Specifying dependencies more clearly)

Hi Alex, At 2022-11-11T03:09:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Write and demonstrate an exploit[6]. It won't make you any more > > popular than your present approach, but it will knock the jocks' > > cowboy hats askew. [...] > > [6] But do it in a sandbox lest you become the next Tom Christia

Re: MR macro 4th argument (was: [PATCH] Various pages: SYNOPSIS: Use VLA syntax in function parameters)

At 2022-11-11T00:55:18+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hmm, will need to parse that. Anyway, I think now that I have the MR > with 4 arguments, moving the 4th to the previous line with sed and N > should not be that difficult. Okay. > Well, being a compatible extension to the others is not that