Re: Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911)

[Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>]

> That's probably better here, but for "non-GNU systems" I wonder if an 
> @nongnusystems{} macro makes sense.

Sure.

> The reasoning I followed was that the standard error messages are in 
> sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c, and one might suppose that a port to a non-GNU 
> system would not use sysdeps/gnu but some other system for getting error 
> messages instead (although I don't see any real reason for the error 
> messages to vary between ports of glibc).

I understand the reasoning.  And perhaps for another system it would be
more important to match the text otherwise used on that system than to
match the errno.texi text.  But the constraints about being a single line
and punctuation and such seem more like a worthwhile feature of the glibc
API that application writers can depend on when designing their messages.

> No, it's (nil) for %p, (null) if you pass a null pointer to %s.  This text 
> is discussing %p.

Right you are.


Thanks,
Roland