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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-05-27 11:31:50 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-05-27 11:31:50 +0000
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Update.
1999-05-27  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/socket.texi (Host Names): Remove statement that h_errno
	needs to be declared since this isn't true anymore.
	Closes PR libc/1138.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/socket.texi b/manual/socket.texi
index 5f31dd47d8..f8564ab5bb 100644
--- a/manual/socket.texi
+++ b/manual/socket.texi
@@ -1236,12 +1236,7 @@ If the name lookup by @code{gethostbyname} or @code{gethostbyaddr}
 fails, you can find out the reason by looking at the value of the
 variable @code{h_errno}.  (It would be cleaner design for these
 functions to set @code{errno}, but use of @code{h_errno} is compatible
-with other systems.)  Before using @code{h_errno}, you must declare it
-like this:
-
-@smallexample
-extern int h_errno;
-@end smallexample
+with other systems.)
 
 Here are the error codes that you may find in @code{h_errno}: