* manual/creature.texi: Likewise.
* manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
* manual/math.texi: Likewise.
* manual/memory.texi: Likewise.
* manual/resource.texi: Likewise.
* manual/syslog.texi: Likewise.
* manual/time.texi: Likewise.
2008-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+ * manual/arith.texi: Avoid @strong{Note:}.
+ * manual/creature.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/math.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/memory.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/resource.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/syslog.texi: Likewise.
+ * manual/time.texi: Likewise.
+
* sysdeps/posix/clock_getres.c (hp_timing_getres): Remove inline
to prevent warning.
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2008-8-1
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2008-8-2
Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu)
+ Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
\f
Version 2.8
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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