manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it
easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the
descriptions.
- Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3)
manpage.
FreeBSD currently implements the most up to date IPv6 APIs for
option and route header parsing. This checkin marks the older APIs
as deprecated and points the reader to the newer pages.
Reviewed by: Jun-ichiro Itojun
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
- Although ldexp() is in libc for backwards compatibility, ldexpf() is
in its proper place in libm. Document both as being in libm.
- The ldexp() and ldexpf() functions conform to C99.
- Neither frexp() nor frexpf() set errno.
- Although frexp() is in libc for backwards compatibility, frexpf() is
in its proper place in libm. Document both as being in libm.
- The frexp() and frexpf() functions conform to C99.
Reviewed by: Kame Project (including Itojun-san, Jinmei-san and Suzuki-san)
Approved by: Robert Watson (robert at freebsd dot org)
Obtained from: Kame Project and OpenBSD
Replace manual pages that may have violated the IETF's Copyright.
All come from the Kame tree.
Several were from OpenBSD except for ip6.4, and the inet6* pages which were
rewritten by me.
All of the text is new and drawn from reading the code and
documentation.
Approved by: Robert Watson (robert at freebsd dot org)
Remove files in preparation for replacement with totally new versions
of the manual pages.
Update the Makefile to handle the new file to be added.
scalbn() implementation from libm. (The two functions are defined to
be identical, but ldexp() lives in libc for backwards compatibility.)
The old ldexp() implementation...
- was more complicated than this one
- set errno instead of raising FP exceptions
- got some corner cases wrong
(e.g. ldexp(1.0, 2000) in round-to-zero mode)
The new implementation lives in libc/gen instead of
libc/$MACHINE_ARCH/gen, since we don't need N copies of a
machine-independent file. The amd64 and i386 platforms
retain their fast and correct MD implementations and
override this one.
really so.
"If the value of base is 16, the characters 0x or 0X may optionally
precede the sequence of letters and digits, following the sign if
present."
Found by: joerg
instead use the FPU to convert subnormals to normals. (NB: Further
simplification is possible, such as using the FPU for the rounding
step.)
This fixes a bug reported by stefanf where long double subnormals in
the Intel 80-bit format would be output with one fewer digit than
necessary when the default precision was used.
Eliminate gdtoa.mk and move its contents to ${MACHINE_ARCH}/Makefile.inc.
The purpose of having a separate file involved an abandoned scheme that
would have kept contrib/gdtoa out of the include path for the rest of libc.
GNU) for determining whether a string is an affirmative or negative
response to a question according to the current locale. This is done
by matching the response against nl_langinfo(3) items YESEXPR and NOEXPR.
make utilities like du(1) 64bit-clean.
When this field is used, one cannot use 'fts_number' and 'fts_pointer'
fields.
This commit doesn't break API nor ABI.
This work is part of the BigDisk project:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/bigdisk/
Discussed on: arch@
MFC after: 5 days
which doesn't end in \n, since it may be very confusing. Also this should
increase consistency, since most other config files work just fine regardless
of the presence of traling \n in the last line.
MFC After: 2 weeks
a "null pointer".''
Making good use of the excellent explanations sent to me by Ruslan
Ermilov, Garrett Wollman and Bruce Evans, correct the descriptions of
null pointers. They are just "null pointers", not nil, not NULL or
".Dv NULL".
Suggested by: ru, wollman, bde
Reviewed by: ru, wollman
Pointy hat: keramida
sigdelset(3) and sigismember(3) were killed about five years ago.
o The functions (specifically sigismember(3)) could return -1 and
set errno.
PR: bin/75156
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
o Bump the date of the document.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/swab.html
the prototype for swab() should be in <unistd.h> and not in <string.h>.
Move it, and update to match SUS. Leave the prototype in string.h for
now, for backwards compat.
PR: 74751
Submitted by: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
Discussed with: das
operation (by subtracting the absolute result from 0), don't test
for overflow.
This avoids an arithmetic exception when dividing LONG_MIN by 1:
This is the only case that causes overflow, and the resulting value
is correct under 2's compliment arithmetic.
PR: 72024
Approved by: dwmalone@
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 4 days
reading past 'stop' in various places when converting multibyte characters.
Reading too far caused truncation to not be detected when it should have
been, eventually causing regexec() to loop infinitely in with certain
combinations of patterns and strings in multibyte locales.
PR: 74020
MFC after: 4 weeks
is supported.
-Document the new more preferred syntax
-Add examples for the new syntax
-Add a note that the old syntax will be deprecated in the future.
Reviewed by: rwatson
If turned on no NIS support and related programs will be built.
Lost parts rediscovered by: Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
PR: bin/68303
No objections: des, gshapiro, nectar
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
seed, the random number generator rand(3) still sucks and is unlikely
sufficient for crypto use. Correct what appears to be a cut and paste
error from the srandomdev() man page.
Submitted by: Ben Mesander
can't use the i386_set_ldt() family of routines, because they are not
implemented. Instead, use the recently exposed direct access sysarch
routines for setting what %fs and %gs point to.
Use this for the i386 TLS _set_tp() routine, but only when compiling to
run as a 32 bit support binary for amd64 kernels.
syslog(3) if we are a priveleged program (sshd, su, etc.).
- Make syslogd open an additional socket /var/run/logpriv, with 0600
permissions.
- In libc, try to use this socket.
- Do not loop forever if we are using this socket (partial backout of 1.31)
Reviewed by: dwmalone, Andrea Campi <andrea webcom it>
Approved by: julian (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
_(use space as padding), and 0(zero padding).
These GNU extensions are widely used ones that is worthy for us to
have.
Discussed with: stefanf, roam, -current
Approved by: murray
Prodded by: ports/72722, ports/72723
MFC After: 1 month
