svn commit: r361940 - head/usr.bin/mkimg

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 9 18:28:27 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 16:13 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> I for one think Fl Fl is absolutely valid, where is the problem?
> If you go that route that Ingo (it is Ingo) brings into the world
> here (which counteracts many, many real-life manuals), then just
> reach into the macros and check how many characters the argument
> to Fl has, after all Fl is meant to document getopt-style things.
> If it is one, it is a short option, if it has more, it is a long
> one.  Short options have one dash, long have two, that is the
> convention.

It may be a convention, but it is not a standard that is universally
followed, as "man clang" or "man gcc" will show you.

-- Ian



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