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| author | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2006-03-19 10:46:21 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2006-03-19 10:46:21 +0000 |
| commit | cfed86b6c387b9485a05dd7efa4e6aaa0b2c085d (patch) | |
| tree | 9da7a47ad65b14c5455251946e08630058bb2ed4 /lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 | |
| parent | 59ba5fe8d1ebf292d42ddb67d73b976d55131ebb (diff) | |
Mark up NULL and -.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdio/printf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 index 9b262e6bf8a..1c5f8f16439 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: printf.3,v 1.41 2006/03/18 05:46:04 rumble Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: printf.3,v 1.42 2006/03/19 10:46:21 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -129,14 +129,18 @@ This pointer should be passed to .Xr free 3 to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed. If sufficient space cannot be allocated, these functions -will return -1 and set +will return \-1 and set .Fa ret -to be a NULL pointer. +to be a +.Dv NULL +pointer. Please note that these functions are not standardized, and not all implementations can be assumed to set the .Fa ret -argument to NULL on error. -It is more portable to check for a return value of -1 instead. +argument to +.Dv NULL +on error. +It is more portable to check for a return value of \-1 instead. .Pp .Fn snprintf and @@ -156,7 +160,9 @@ If .Fa size is zero, nothing is written and .Fa str -may be a NULL pointer. +may be a +.Dv NULL +pointer. .Pp .Fn sprintf and |
