[PATCH] fixes for many small documentation problems

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Fri Oct 28 21:34:00 GMT 2005


Finally checked in Bob, thanks.

-- Jeff J.

Bob Wilson wrote:
> I spent a few days editing the newlib documentation.  This patch is a  
> collection of all the little fixes that I think are entirely  
> straightforward.  (If I had write access, I would commit these as  
> "obvious".)
> 
> The only portion that might need some explanation is removing the  docs 
> for raise/_raise_r in signal.c.  The documentation for raise/ _raise_r 
> is already included in libc/signal/raise.c so there's no  reason to 
> duplicate it in signal.c.  I assume this is left over from  an earlier 
> version where these functions were all in one source file.
> 
> 2005-10-11  Bob Wilson  <bob.wilson@acm.org>
> 
>         * libc/misc/unctrl.c: Replace FUNCTION description.
>         * libc/signal/signal.c: Remove documentation for raise and  
> _raise_r.
>         * libc/stdio/getdelim.c: Fix spelling errors.
>         * libc/stdio/getw.c: Put RETURNS on a separate line.  Fix  
> punctuation.
>         * libc/stdio/putw.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/stdlib/a64l.c: Fix formatting, spelling and  punctuation in
>         documentation.
>         * libc/stdlib/assert.c: Do not capitalize FUNCTION description.
>         * libc/stdlib/efgcvt.c: Add spaces to FUNCTION description.
>         * libc/stdlib/envlock.c: Use em-dash in FUNCTION description.
>         * libc/stdlib/mlock.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/stdlib/mstats.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/time/tzlock.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/stdlib/rand.c: Use "multi-threaded" and "thread-safe"  in 
> NOTES.
>         * libc/stdlib/rand48.c: Remove extra space in FUNCTION  description
>         and hyphenate "pseudo-random".
>         * libc/string/bcmp.c: Remove extra blank lines in  documentation.
>         * libc/string/strncat.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/memchr.c: Remove extra ">" character in  
> documentation.
>         * libc/string/strcspn.c: Use "characters" instead of "chars".
>         * libc/string/strpbrk.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/strerror_r.c: Capitalize "GNU".
>         * libc/string/strnlen.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/strtok.c: Fix formatting, spelling and  
> punctuation in
>         documentation.  Use "multi-threaded" and "thread-safe" in  NOTES.
>         * libc/string/wcscat.c: Split PORTABILITY into two paragraphs.
>         * libc/string/wcschr.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcscmp.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcscpy.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcscspn.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcslen.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsncat.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsncmp.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsncpy.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsnlen.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcspbrk.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsrchr.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wcsspn.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wmemchr.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wmemcmp.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wmemcpy.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wmemset.c: Likewise.
>         * libc/string/wmemmove.c: Likewise.  Also fix FUNCTION  
> description.
>         * libc/string/wcswidth.c: Formatting and punctuation in  
> documentation.
>         * libc/string/wcwidth.c: Likewise.
>         * libm/common/s_modf.c: Remove extra period from documentation.
>         * libm/math/s_isnan.c: Fix formatting, grammar and  punctuation in
>         documentation.
>         * libm/mathfp/s_isnan.c: Likewise.
>         * libm/math/s_ldexp.c: Fix punctuation.
>         * libm/mathfp/s_ldexp.c: Likewise.
>         * libm/math/w_log.c: Likewise.
>         * libm/mathfp/s_logarithm.c: Likewise.
>         * libm/math/w_j0.c: Add spaces to FUNCTION description.
>         * libm/mathfp/w_jn.c: Likewise.



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