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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-04-02 22:06:24 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-04-02 22:06:24 +0000
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1997-04-02 16:55  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* manual/socket.texi: Document behaviour of inet_ntoa in multi-
	threaded programs.
	* manual/stdio.texi: Change wording for snprintf description a bit.
	Correct typo in example.
	* manual/lang.texi: Add documentation of __va_copy.

	* Makefile: Add rule to easily generate dir-add.texi file.
	* manual/Makefile: Likewise.

	* manual/arith.texi: Add description of lldiv_t, lldiv, and atoll.
	Change description of strtoll and strtoull to make clear these
	are the preferred names.
	Describe `inf', `inifinity', `nan', `nan(...)' inputs for strtod
	and friends.
	Change references to HUGE_VALf and HUGE_VALl to HUGE_VALF and
	HUGE_VALL.

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nan.c: Use strtod if parameter is not empty
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nanl.c: Likewise.
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@@ -826,6 +826,10 @@ string in the standard numbers-and-dots notation.  The return value is
 a pointer into a statically-allocated buffer.  Subsequent calls will
 overwrite the same buffer, so you should copy the string if you need
 to save it.
+
+In multi-threaded programs each thread has an own statically-allocated
+buffer.  But still subsequent calls of @code{inet_ntoa} in the same
+thread will overwrite the result of the last call.
 @end deftypefun
 
 @comment arpa/inet.h