svn commit: r188305 - head/lib/libc/stdlib
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 8 00:26:59 PST 2009
Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Sun Feb 8 08:26:58 2009
New Revision: 188305
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188305
Log:
Fix language on atol(3) manpage. Add a COMPATIBILITY section
stating that in FreeBSD the atol() and atoll() functions affect
errno in the same way as strtol() and stroll().
PR: docs/126487
Submitted by: edwin
Reviewed by: trhodes, gabor
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/lib/libc/stdlib/atol.3
Modified: head/lib/libc/stdlib/atol.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/stdlib/atol.3 Sun Feb 8 08:13:36 2009 (r188304)
+++ head/lib/libc/stdlib/atol.3 Sun Feb 8 08:26:58 2009 (r188305)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)atol.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 28, 2001
+.Dd February 1, 2009
.Dt ATOL 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -78,13 +78,42 @@ representation.
It is equivalent to:
.Pp
.Dl "strtoll(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);"
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The
+.Fx
+implementations of the
+.Fn atol
+and
+.Fn atoll
+functions are thin wrappers around
+.Fn strtol
+and
+.Fn stroll
+respectively, so these functions will affect the value of
+.Va errno
+in the same way that the
+.Fn strtol
+and
+.Fn stroll
+functions are able to.
+This behavior of
+.Fn atol
+and
+.Fn atoll
+is not required by
+.St -isoC
+or
+.St -isoC-c99 ,
+but it is allowed by all of
+.St -isoC , St -isoC-99
+and
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
.Sh ERRORS
The functions
.Fn atol
and
.Fn atoll
-need not
-affect the value of
+may affect the value of
.Va errno
on an error.
.Sh SEE ALSO
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