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TJM

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Mysterious function signature in Arch man page of strftime

On the Arch man page of the strftime function. There's a mysterious size_t max; in the function signature.

size_t strftime(size_t max;
                char s[restrict max], size_t max,
                const char *restrict format,
                const struct tm *restrict tm);

However, on the official Linux man‑pages, size_t max;  absents.

       size_t strftime(char s[restrict .max], size_t max,
                       const char *restrict format,
                       const struct tm *restrict tm);

Anyone knows what's going on?

Scimmia

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Re: Mysterious function signature in Arch man page of strftime

Your second link is an old version.

seth

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Re: Mysterious function signature in Arch man page of strftime

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306841

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mpan

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Re: Mysterious function signature in Arch man page of strftime

See notes towards the end of GCC → 6.2.1 Arrays of Variable Length.

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