>>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'').

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