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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
commit1f77f0491f10f67442876cffbda387eac9eafe4d (patch)
tree17ad3299a2c8e6198ffb4a6c33e94e38f816e284 /NOTES
parent450bf206b4eba7e2288bc6c6e487f60e26165dce (diff)
Use Texinfo macros to refer to the GNU C Library within the manual.
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@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ relying on semantics undefined within the standard.
-- Macro: _ISOC99_SOURCE
Until the revised ISO C standard is widely adopted the new features
- are not automatically enabled. The GNU libc nevertheless has a
- complete implementation of the new standard and to enable the new
- features the macro `_ISOC99_SOURCE' should be defined.
+ are not automatically enabled. The GNU C Library nevertheless has
+ a complete implementation of the new standard and to enable the
+ new features the macro `_ISOC99_SOURCE' should be defined.
-- Macro: _GNU_SOURCE
If you define this macro, everything is included: ISO C89,
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ relying on semantics undefined within the standard.
Note that if you do this, you must link your program with the BSD
compatibility library by passing the `-lbsd-compat' option to the
- compiler or linker. *Note:* If you forget to do this, you may get
+ compiler or linker. *NB:* If you forget to do this, you may get
very strange errors at run time.
-- Macro: _REENTRANT
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ relying on semantics undefined within the standard.
If you define one of these macros, reentrant versions of several
functions get declared. Some of the functions are specified in
POSIX.1c but many others are only available on a few other systems
- or are unique to GNU libc. The problem is the delay in the
- standardization of the thread safe C library interface.
+ or are unique to the GNU C Library. The problem is the delay in
+ the standardization of the thread safe C library interface.
Unlike on some other systems, no special version of the C library
must be used for linking. There is only one version but while