man pages convention: (square)bracket annotation in C function prototypes

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The [.len] annotation to the first argument — is that documented somewhere? I could not find it here: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html

I guess it is supposed to add clarity to the prototype but I've not seen this usage documented.

# examples
int pkey_mprotect(void addr[.len], size_t len, int prot, int pkey);
ssize_t read(int fd, void buf[.count], size_t count);

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