[lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Escape minus signs in lttng-ust-cyg-profile manpage

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Fri Nov 15 10:35:20 EST 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Bernard" <jbernard at tuxion.com>
> To: lttng-dev at lists.lttng.org
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:12:47 AM
> Subject: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Escape minus signs in lttng-ust-cyg-profile	manpage

merged into master, 2.3, 2.2, thanks!

Mathieu

> 
> By default, "-" chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by groff, not
> as minus signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus signs
> (U+002D), this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot cut
> and paste options, nor search for them easily.
> 
> Source: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Bernard <jbernard at tuxion.com>
> ---
>  doc/man/lttng-ust-cyg-profile.3 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-ust-cyg-profile.3
> b/doc/man/lttng-ust-cyg-profile.3
> index fa8cf4f..341d3ae 100644
> --- a/doc/man/lttng-ust-cyg-profile.3
> +++ b/doc/man/lttng-ust-cyg-profile.3
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ call site address are recorded as
> lttng_ust_cyg_profile:func_entry and
>  lttng_ust_cyg_profile:func_exit.
>  .SH "USAGE"
>  To use function tracing you need to make sure the sources of your
>  application
> -are compiled with -finstrument-functions. It might be necessary to limit
> +are compiled with \-finstrument\-functions. It might be necessary to limit
>  the number of source files where this option is used to prevent excessive
>  amount of trace data to be generated during run time. Usually there are
>  additional compiler flags that allow you to specify more fine grained
>  selection
> --
> 1.8.4.rc3
> 
> 
> --
> Jon
> 
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