strftime man page is garbled

[Marco Atzeri]

On 6/4/2015 7:46 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> Works fine for me, I have a complete man page
>> see attached.
>
> I think that's exactly what Wayne was talking about:
>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>         into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
>>         MAXSIZE characters.
>
> The beginning of the sentence seems to be missing, although it looks
> like a run-in from the NAME section could be intended.  Also, if you
> look at that manpage in a wide terminal you'll see that most paragraphs
> have hard formatting, while some flow to the width of the terminal.
>
> Both things are happening on other newlib manpages as well, so it's
> probably either the source code for the manpages itself or man doesn't
> deal with the slightly odd roff macros from newlib correctly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

you are right.
The man page seems very simple

--------------------------------------------------
.SH DESCRIPTION
'strftime' converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP)
into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
MAXSIZE characters.
--------------------------------------------------

It looks a man-db issue, it misinterprets the ' at the begin
of the phrase.

Adding a single space before works fine.


DESCRIPTION
  'strftime' converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP)
into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
MAXSIZE characters.








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