From 24ab237a8980c1104688fd011e09eafc8e3ac3d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tjr Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:32:41 +0000 Subject: 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 interface in FreeBSD 6. --- lib/libc/locale/isprint.3 | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/libc/locale/isprint.3') diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/isprint.3 b/lib/libc/locale/isprint.3 index 825d06e..ace183a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/locale/isprint.3 +++ b/lib/libc/locale/isprint.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)isprint.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 6, 2002 +.Dd July 30, 2004 .Dt ISPRINT 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -92,14 +92,12 @@ The function returns zero if the character tests false and returns non-zero if the character tests true. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -Although -.Fn isprint -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 iswprint function should be used instead for maximum portability. .Sh SEE ALSO -- cgit v1.1