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authormmcc <mmcc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-07 03:48:26 +0000
committermmcc <mmcc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-07 03:48:26 +0000
commit1c24224950b1ad801435659f9dc04849238c3047 (patch)
treec8ce951b3cfb680591d00fe1a30327063947df24 /share
parent114b0ff5bea4c9df6cc1a25fa7abb3a6233f9461 (diff)
Simplify and clarify.
Discussed with jca@
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/printf.912
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/printf.9 b/share/man/man9/printf.9
index fc1c41ca0d0..c31fb0cb42e 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/printf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/printf.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: printf.9,v 1.23 2015/11/02 04:49:28 mmcc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: printf.9,v 1.24 2015/11/07 03:48:25 mmcc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kprintf.9,v 1.6 1999/03/16 00:40:47 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 7 2015 $
.Dt PRINTF 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -126,9 +126,7 @@ for functional details.
The kernel functions don't support as many formatting specifiers as their
user space counterparts.
In addition to the floating point formatting specifiers,
-the following integer type specifiers are not supported in the format string
-.Fa format
-either:
+the following integer type specifiers are not supported:
.Bl -tag -width 5n
.It Li %hh
Argument of
@@ -148,9 +146,7 @@ Argument of
type.
.El
.Pp
-The kernel functions also accept the following format specifiers
-in the format string
-.Fa format :
+The kernel functions support some additional formatting specifiers:
.Bl -tag -width 5n
.It Li %b
Bit field expansion.