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| author |   aaron <aaron@openbsd.org> | 2000-04-20 13:50:01 +0000 |
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| committer | aaron <aaron@openbsd.org> | 2000-04-20 13:50:01 +0000 |
| commit | b43b90887f3b9d2c29965f870f90ae22a8c39b03 (patch) | |
| tree | 30c566895531f29f7cd76f7a66a745b31029b375 /lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 | |
| parent | Don't include machine/pmap.h, vm/pmap.h does that for us. (diff) | |
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Flesh out stdlib function man pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 index 1074dbff2e7..787634303c3 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/a64l.3 @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -.\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ .\" OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF .\" ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: a64l.3,v 1.4 1999/06/29 18:36:15 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: a64l.3,v 1.5 2000/04/20 13:50:01 aaron Exp $ .\" .Dd August 17, 1997 .Dt A64L 3 @@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ and .Fn l64a functions are used to maintain numbers stored in radix-64 .Tn ASCII -characters. This is a notation by which 32-bit integers -can be represented by up to six characters; each character -represents a +characters. +This is a notation by which 32-bit integers +can be represented by up to six characters; each character represents a .Dq digit in a radix-64 notation. .Pp @@ -73,14 +72,16 @@ for 38-63. The .Fn a64l function takes a pointer to a null-terminated radix-64 representation -and returns a corresponding 32-bit value. If the string pointed to by +and returns a corresponding 32-bit value. +If the string pointed to by .Fa s contains more than six characters, .Fn a64l will use the first six. .Fn a64l scans the character string from left to right, decoding -each character as a 6-bit radix-64 number. If a long integer is +each character as a 6-bit radix-64 number. +If a long integer is larger than 32 bits, the return value will be sign-extended. .Pp .Fn l64a |