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| -rw-r--r-- | manual/arith.texi | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/creature.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/filesys.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/math.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/memory.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/resource.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/syslog.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/time.texi | 2 |
8 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 078885e86f..b1580a06f5 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ This function returns @code{-1} if @var{x} represents negative infinity, This function returns a nonzero value if @var{x} is a ``not a number'' value, and zero otherwise. -@strong{Note:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides +@strong{NB:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides the BSD function. This is normally not a problem, because the two routines behave identically. However, if you really need to get the BSD function for some reason, you can write @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ decide whether traps will occur for each of the exceptions, by setting bits in the @dfn{control word}. In C, traps result in the program receiving the @code{SIGFPE} signal; see @ref{Signal Handling}. -@strong{Note:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of +@strong{NB:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of the exceptional situation, and can set the result value. C signals do not provide any mechanism to pass this information back and forth. Trapping exceptions in C is therefore not very useful. @@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ Not all machines provide hardware support for these operations. On machines that don't, the macros can be very slow. Therefore, you should not use these functions when NaN is not a concern. -@strong{Note:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}. +@strong{NB:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}. They are unnecessary, because the @code{==} and @code{!=} operators do @emph{not} throw an exception if one or both of the operands are NaN. diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi index c825edd5ae..96501568a0 100644 --- a/manual/creature.texi +++ b/manual/creature.texi @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ sequence of definitions: Note that if you do this, you must link your program with the BSD compatibility library by passing the @samp{-lbsd-compat} option to the -compiler or linker. @strong{Note:} If you forget to do this, you may +compiler or linker. @strong{NB:} If you forget to do this, you may get very strange errors at run time. @end defvr diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index 9719d41946..a486f7de34 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -3239,7 +3239,7 @@ are replaced with six characters which make the whole string a unique file name. Usually the template string is something like @samp{/tmp/@var{prefix}XXXXXX}, and each program uses a unique @var{prefix}. -@strong{Note:} Because @code{mktemp} and @code{mkstemp} modify the +@strong{NB:} Because @code{mktemp} and @code{mkstemp} modify the template string, you @emph{must not} pass string constants to them. String constants are normally in read-only storage, so your program would crash when @code{mktemp} or @code{mkstemp} tried to modify the diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi index 7ebcddee3f..50e087c487 100644 --- a/manual/math.texi +++ b/manual/math.texi @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ The prototypes for these functions are in @file{stdlib.h}. This function returns the next pseudo-random number in the sequence. The value returned ranges from @code{0} to @code{RAND_MAX}. -@strong{Note:} Temporarily this function was defined to return a +@strong{NB:} Temporarily this function was defined to return a @code{int32_t} value to indicate that the return value always contains 32 bits even if @code{long int} is wider. The standard demands it differently. Users must always be aware of the 32-bit limitation, diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index cbe147b712..43afc7bf95 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -2326,7 +2326,7 @@ additional block on each iteration. This is impossible with variable-sized arrays. @end itemize -@strong{Note:} If you mix use of @code{alloca} and variable-sized arrays +@strong{NB:} If you mix use of @code{alloca} and variable-sized arrays within one function, exiting a scope in which a variable-sized array was declared frees all blocks allocated with @code{alloca} during the execution of that scope. diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi index aabd28976a..4a814c9e4a 100644 --- a/manual/resource.texi +++ b/manual/resource.texi @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ ready to execute instructions right now. When a process blocks to wait for something like I/O, its absolute priority is irrelevant. @cindex runnable process -@strong{Note:} The term ``runnable'' is a synonym for ``ready to run.'' +@strong{NB:} The term ``runnable'' is a synonym for ``ready to run.'' When two processes are running or ready to run and both have the same absolute priority, it's more interesting. In that case, who gets the @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ privileged process constantly monitors the process' CPU usage and raises its absolute priority when the process isn't getting its entitled share and lowers it when the process is exceeding it. -@strong{Note:} The absolute priority is sometimes called the ``static +@strong{NB:} The absolute priority is sometimes called the ``static priority.'' We don't use that term in this manual because it misses the most important feature of the absolute priority: its absoluteness. diff --git a/manual/syslog.texi b/manual/syslog.texi index 02c8e28a7a..e16b5d2475 100644 --- a/manual/syslog.texi +++ b/manual/syslog.texi @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Locally defined Results are undefined if the facility code is anything else. -@strong{note:} @code{syslog} recognizes one other facility code: that of +@strong{NB:} @code{syslog} recognizes one other facility code: that of the kernel. But you can't specify that facility code with these functions. If you try, it looks the same to @code{syslog} as if you are requesting the default facility. But you wouldn't want to anyway, diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index 64763a2d21..393bccd99f 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ The seconds as a decimal number (range @code{0} through @code{60}). Leading zeroes are permitted but not required. -@strong{Note:} The Unix specification says the upper bound on this value +@strong{NB:} The Unix specification says the upper bound on this value is @code{61}, a result of a decision to allow double leap seconds. You will not see the value @code{61} because no minute has more than one leap second, but the myth persists. |