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authorriastradh <riastradh@NetBSD.org>2016-11-07 21:51:42 +0000
committerriastradh <riastradh@NetBSD.org>2016-11-07 21:51:42 +0000
commitf5aab61c523232bd52e5f3b5dbcd7b7f39f6a217 (patch)
tree21a59e0da13e0f20676a46f72c679c2156bd2508 /lib/libc/stdlib
parent116a292186e3357cd0bdb8ca956ce08c32e91316 (diff)
Fix phrasing about `out-of-band' and `sentinel value'.
Either an out-of-band channel, or an in-band sentinel value, could indicate an error, but an out-of-band sentinel value is a silly proposition. Noted by uwe@.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.38
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
index 5bcfbb5c623..f0dd57f6c16 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: strtod.3,v 1.27 2016/11/04 20:06:09 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: strtod.3,v 1.28 2016/11/07 21:51:42 riastradh Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ the closest subnormal value, or zero, is returned, and
is stored in
.Va errno .
.Sh EXAMPLES
-Since there is no out-of-band sentinel value to indicate an error,
-callers who wish to know whether there was overflow or underflow must
-set
+Since there is no out-of-band channel or sentinel value to indicate an
+error, callers who wish to know whether there was overflow or underflow
+must set
.Va errno
to zero before calling
.Fn strtod ,