linux-kernel - Re: kernel-doc: what is the purpose of "&struct"?

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Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:03:54 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel-doc:  what is the purpose of "&struct"?


On Jan 6 2007 10:00, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:44:39 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>>   according to the kernel-doc HOWTO, the following should be
>> "highlighted" in some way if found in the extractable documentation of
>> your source file:
>> 
>>   '&struct_name' - name of a structure (up to two words including 'struct')
>> 
>> but examples of that, at least in the HTML, are simply printed in
>> regular font prefixed with '&' -- i don't see that any "highlighting"
>> is being done.
>
>The struct name is highlighted in 'man' output mode.
>Not done in text or html output modes.

&something is quite ambiguous when it comes near C code. So far,
I have only used e.g. %NULL (%CONSTANT) since % is not an unary 
operator in C. On the other side, no marking up of any "struct".

	-`J'
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