[PATCH, Fortran] documentation for FTELL, GETLOG, HOSTNM instrinsics
Brooks Moses
bmoses@stanford.edu
Mon Oct 23 22:11:00 GMT 2006
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> If I may suggest some minor changes, though?
>
> Index: intrinsic.texi
> ===================================================================
> +This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however,
> +only one form can be used in any given program unit.
>
> How about chaning "...forms; however, only one..." to "forms. Only one
> form can be..."?
Thanks; that does sound better. There are a few other intrinsics that
fit this pattern; I'm intending to eventually push those into a common
wording for documenting the restriction.
> +Stores the current user name in @var{LOGIN}. (On systems where
> +the @code{getlogin(3)} function is not implemented, this will
> +return a blank string.)
>
> I suggest to omit the parentheses here, and make "stores in" and
> "return a blank string" more consistent. (I assume that also in
> the latter case, that blank string is going to be returned in LOGIN?)
Yup; I agree.
Thanks much,
- Brooks
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