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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/isblank.3 | |
| parent | 3d22c61072a3b89837dc33e0e21a82ec5cea1329 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-24ab237a8980c1104688fd011e09eafc8e3ac3d5.zip FreeBSD-src-24ab237a8980c1104688fd011e09eafc8e3ac3d5.tar.gz | |
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/isblank.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/locale/isblank.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/isblank.3 b/lib/libc/locale/isblank.3 index 5fdc2ae..d8bfb8e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/isblank.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/isblank.3 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)isblank.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 6, 2002 +.Dd July 30, 2004 .Dt ISBLANK 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -67,14 +67,12 @@ representable as an or the value of .Dv EOF . .Sh COMPATIBILITY -Although -.Fn isblank -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 iswblank function should be used instead for maximum portability. .Sh RETURN VALUES |
