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authorchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-03 15:31:47 +0000
committerchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-03 15:31:47 +0000
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Move appropriate information out of `DESCRIPTION' and into `SECURITY
CONSIDERATIONS'. Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/fmtcheck.3 b/lib/libc/gen/fmtcheck.3
index e11687d..64fbf2d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/fmtcheck.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/fmtcheck.3
@@ -81,18 +81,6 @@ the field width or precision is an asterisk
.Ql *
instead of a digit string). Also, any text other than the format specifiers
is completely ignored.
-.Pp
-Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
-same parameters. For example,
-.Qq Li "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n"
-is compatible with
-.Qq Li "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)" .
-However,
-.Qq Li %o
-is not equivalent to
-.Qq Li %lx
-because
-the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If
.Fa fmt_suspect
@@ -104,5 +92,17 @@ will return
.Fa fmt_suspect .
Otherwise, it will return
.Fa fmt_default .
+.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
+Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
+same parameters. For example,
+.Qq Li "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n"
+is compatible with
+.Qq Li "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)" .
+However,
+.Qq Li %o
+is not equivalent to
+.Qq Li %lx
+because
+the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr printf 3
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