On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Dom <to...@rpdom.net> wrote:
> On 09/09/13 07:21, Joel Rees wrote:
> <snip code and stuff>
>
>>
>> Not sure why neither man -k nor whereis can find float.h, but it compiles
>> okay.
>
>
> dom@oz:~$ locate float.h
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/include/float.h
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.7/include/float.h
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h
> /usr/share/pyshared/numpy/core/include/numpy/halffloat.h
>
> whereis looks on the PATH for a command. float.h isn't a command. It does
> also look for manpages, but...

whereis picks up stuff in /usr/include and /usr/lib, as well.

> It does have a manpage:
> http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=float.h
> but perhaps you don't have it installed. I certainly don't.
>
> --
> Dom
>

I actually do have manpages-dev installed, so I can get a man page on
fgetc, but it still doesn't give me a man page for stuff in float.h.

It's two am here. I'm going to bed.

--
Joel Rees


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