On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 04:19:08PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2017, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > OK. > > Including corrections by ngie: > > > diff --git a/share/man/man7/arch.7 b/share/man/man7/arch.7 > > index 1ce397a303e..ad1abccc2e5 100644 > > --- a/share/man/man7/arch.7 > > +++ b/share/man/man7/arch.7 > > @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Differences between CPU architectures and platforms > > supported by > > .Fx . > > .Pp > > This .Pp gives misformatting (an extra blank line) when followed by .Ss. > Apparently, .Ss gives its own paragraph break. > > > .Ss Type sizes > > +If not explicitely mentioned, sizes are in bytes. > > "explicitly" > > This should be moved higher, so that it applies to the "Page Size" section. > The first clause isn't needed, since there are no explicit mentions of > sizes not in bytes (there is only "80 bits" for some FP values which don't > claim to be sizes and aren't really sizes and should be changed to "64 > bits" and claim to be precisions). > > > +.Pp > > Check the formatting after moving the addition higher. There will be 2 > very short paragraphs if you keep this .Pp. Ok, see the cumulative changes in the patch.
> > > On all supported architectures, > > The comma at the end of this should be a colon. Ok. > > +.Pp > > +.Sy time_t > > +is always signed, it is 64-bits everywere except on i386 and 32-bit > > powerpc. > > Change "is always" to "On all supported arches" as elsewhere. > > "everywhere" > > "everywhere" is redundant. Ok. > > The whole second clause is redundant. Remove it. Leave it to the reader > to notice that the table has more 8's than 4's, and where the 4's are. No, this is one of the important reasons why this narrative text added at all. > This also fixes: > - bad grammar (comma splice). In general, use separate sentences, since > the rules for splicing clauses using commas and semicolons or avoiding > these using a word are complicated, though I used splicing in this > sentence to help make it so complicated (IIRC, "since" here is a > splicing method with some technical name like "conjunctive adjective"). > - inconsistent units (bytes in the table and bits here). Ok. diff --git a/share/man/man7/arch.7 b/share/man/man7/arch.7 index 47a72a1986d..62781430329 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/arch.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/arch.7 @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ Differences between CPU architectures and platforms supported by .Fx . .Pp +If not explicitly mentioned, sizes are in bytes. .Ss Type sizes -On all supported architectures, +On all supported architectures: .Bl -column -offset -indent "long long" "Size" .It Sy Type Ta Sy Size .It short Ta 2 @@ -47,8 +48,10 @@ On all supported architectures, .It float Ta 4 .It double Ta 8 .El -.Bl -column -offset indent "Sy Architecture" "Sy sizeof(void *)" "Sy sizeof(long double)" "Sy sizeof(time_t)" -.It Sy Architecture Ta Sy sizeof(void *) Ta Sy sizeof(long double) Ta Sy sizeof(time_t) +.Pp +Machine-dependent type sizes: +.Bl -column -offset indent "Sy Architecture" "Sy void *" "Sy long double" "Sy time_t" +.It Sy Architecture Ta Sy void * Ta Sy long double Ta Sy time_t .It amd64 Ta 8 Ta 16 Ta 8 .It arm Ta 4 Ta 8 Ta 8 .It armeb Ta 4 Ta 8 Ta 8 @@ -70,6 +73,10 @@ On all supported architectures, .It riscv Ta 8 Ta 16 Ta 8 .It sparc64 Ta 8 Ta 16 Ta 8 .El +.Pp +.Sy time_t +is 8 bytes on all supported architectures except i386 and 32-bit +variants of powerpc. .Ss Endianness and Char Signedness .Bl -column -offset indent "Sy Architecture" "Sy Endianness" "Sy char Signedness" .It Sy Architecture Ta Sy Endianness Ta Sy char Signedness _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
