PATCH: new flag to say when things are instantiated

Phil Edwards pedwards@disaster.jaj.com
Wed Nov 8 14:39:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:32:02PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 
> Surely any new option should come with a patch to invoke.texi to document
> it?  I think documentation for any user-visible features should be
> considered a necessary part of any patch, not an optional extra.

Yes, *please*.  It's extremely frustrating when the most reliable methods
of learning about a new option are

    1) seeing it used in a makefile, and
    2) strings(1)'ing the binary occasionally


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