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[PATCH] manual: drop strerror C89 compatibility note
- From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:14:10 -0500
- Subject: [PATCH] manual: drop strerror C89 compatibility note
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
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
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