Update to ncurses-5.2-20010114

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libcurses/terminfo.3 b/lib/libcurses/terminfo.3
index c68d17f6718..06afcd61c55 100644
--- a/lib/libcurses/terminfo.3
+++ b/lib/libcurses/terminfo.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: terminfo.3,v 1.7 2000/07/10 03:06:11 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: terminfo.3,v 1.8 2001/01/22 18:01:35 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $From: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.13 2000/07/01 20:07:34 tom Exp $
+.\" $From: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.14 2000/12/03 00:07:23 tom Exp $
 .TH terminfo 3 ""
 .ds n 5
 .SH NAME
@@ -255,6 +255,10 @@ In System V Release 4, the third argument of \fBtputs\fR has the type
 
 The XSI Curses standard prototypes \fBtparm\fR with a fixed number of parameters,
 rather than a variable argument list.
+That prototype assumes that none of the parameters are strings
+(or if so, that a long is big enough to hold a pointer).
+The variable argument list implemented in ncurses does not rely on
+that assumption.
 
 XSI notes that after calling \fBmvcur\fR, the curses state may not match the
 actual terminal state, and that an application should touch and refresh