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author | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-29 23:32:41 +0000 |
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committer | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-29 23:32:41 +0000 |
commit | 24ab237a8980c1104688fd011e09eafc8e3ac3d5 (patch) | |
tree | 82e5e52d5ab921c7727a4dba9142e83df6fdcd11 /lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 | |
parent | 3d22c61072a3b89837dc33e0e21a82ec5cea1329 (diff) | |
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Re-word the COMPATIBILITY section, taking care to use the word "deprecated"
to describe the 4.4BSD extension of accepting arguments outside the range
of unsigned char. This gives us freedom to remove this extension when we
remove the <rune.h> interface in FreeBSD 6.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 b/lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 index 5cc0f8c..643a979 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/isalnum.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)isalnum.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 6, 2002 +.Dd July 30, 2004 .Dt ISALNUM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -89,14 +89,12 @@ The function returns zero if the character tests false and returns non-zero if the character tests true. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -Although -.Fn isalnum -accepts arguments outside of the range of the -.Vt "unsigned char" -type in locales with large character sets, -this is a +The .Bx 4.4 -extension and the +extension of accepting arguments outside of the range of the +.Vt "unsigned char" +type in locales with large character sets is deprecated. +The .Fn iswalnum function should be used instead for maximum portability. .Sh SEE ALSO |