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[PATCH] manual: drop strerror C89 compatibility note


Mentioning systems that are old and don't support C89 is probably
a waste of time nowadays.  Drop the note.

2015-03-05  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>

	* manual/errno.texi: Delete strerror ISO C89 compatibility note.
---
 manual/errno.texi | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual/errno.texi b/manual/errno.texi
index 41d6639..315320d 100644
--- a/manual/errno.texi
+++ b/manual/errno.texi
@@ -1361,9 +1361,6 @@ given error code; the precise text varies from system to system.  With
 messages or embedded newlines.  Each error message begins with a capital
 letter and does not include any terminating punctuation.
 
-@strong{Compatibility Note:} The @code{strerror} function was introduced
-in @w{ISO C89}.  Many older C systems do not support this function yet.
-
 @cindex program name
 @cindex name of running program
 Many programs that don't read input from the terminal are designed to
-- 
2.3.1


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