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hello everyone, thank you for your replies. i'm afraid i didn't explain myself very well on my first message; i was actually talking about having a short reference guide to the c++ library, exactly like Martin said about the c library. the reason for this is i spent most of last week roaming through g++ and subdirectories trying to figure out dependencies between classes - and all just because i wanted to use the stat function but through g++ streams. i ended up drawing an uml class diagram with notes scribbled everywhere, and when i _finally_ understood everything required there was a bug in g++ that caused segfault. it all ended with me in emacs reading the stat man page and thinking: why do c++ users have to suffer so much more than c users? until now, perhaps because there was no standard so not much of a point of having proper documentation. hey, don't take me wrong, i'm like luke - read the source :-) but reading things like bastring.h can drive you mad sometimes... sorry for the ranting, but i hope its clearer now what i meant. if there is no work in this field at the moment, i'm interested in doing something about it as i find the situation most annoying. because i wasn't sure if someone else was doing it, i didnt write my initial drafts for the page format (which sections i consider important, mainly); if this list is the place to do it, please let me know. __soup_dragon__ "Ostinato rigore." Leonardo Da Vinci > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin v. Loewis [SMTP:martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:10 AM > To: jason@cygnus.com > Cc: Craveiro, Marco; libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: man > > > > The man pages are not anymore the primary source of information; > > > instead, the gcc manual should be used for information on using the > > > compiler. > > > > Perhaps he's interested in man pages for the C++ library, akin to > section 3 > > for the C library. 'man vector' or some such. > > Oops, sorry. In any case, to my knowledge, there are no plans of > creating such documentation, either. Again, contributions are > certainly welcome. > > Regards, > Martin
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