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authorfair <fair@NetBSD.org>2001-03-16 07:47:29 +0000
committerfair <fair@NetBSD.org>2001-03-16 07:47:29 +0000
commit0b6f0115355bd5dc3700658d4f2d2c1930848b30 (patch)
treeaf70ad06735b979bbc00e7fb7b51da5dc12bf7ba /lib
parent802ed4d55c28592f3a2f132d1de483209aebaab0 (diff)
Add documentation of nmemb parameter, per PR 10567
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.315
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
index 2b94b90ec0e..5529c7cfdf9 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/radixsort.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: radixsort.3,v 1.8 2001/01/12 19:23:11 jdolecek Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: radixsort.3,v 1.9 2001/03/16 07:47:29 fair Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -56,10 +56,13 @@ and
functions
are implementations of radix sort.
.Pp
-These functions sort an array of pointers to byte strings, the initial
-member of which is referenced by
+These functions sort an
+.Fa nmemb
+element array of pointers to byte strings, with
+the initial member of which is referenced by
.Fa base .
-The byte strings may contain any values. End of strings is denoted
+The byte strings may contain any values.
+End of strings is denoted
by character which has same weight as user specified value
.Fa endbyte .
.Fa endbyte
@@ -69,7 +72,7 @@ Applications may specify a sort order by providing the
.Fa table
argument.
If
-.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
+.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
.Fa table
must reference an array of
.Dv UCHAR_MAX
@@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ particular, see D.E. Knuth's Algorithm R and section 5.2.5, exercise 10.
They take linear time relative to the number of bytes in the strings.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
-Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS