>>From wcrtomb(3): > > The wcrtomb() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995 (``ISO C90, > Amendment 1''). The restrict qualifier is added at ISO/IEC 9899/1999 > (``ISO C99''). > >This wording is confusing. Is it implying that we don't use a restrict >qualifier? (We do.) > >If a standard changes, do we have to document how the old standard >differs from what we currently follow? That seems awfully complicated. >Can we just document the latest standard, or "the earliest standard >that doesn't appreciably differ from the latest standard"? > >What's the guiding practice here?
Man pages should documnet what people need, trying to avoid ambiguity or overpreciseness. True or false: The wcrtomb() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899/1999 (``ISO C99'').