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| author | Mitchell Horne <mhorne@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-04-25 20:26:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Mitchell Horne <mhorne@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-06-09 18:14:58 +0000 |
| commit | fd9ce8745f643e718014ca301e63c07bad1595d9 (patch) | |
| tree | ec29b83a6f8129324b135317c88a344c688b1fc2 | |
| parent | 6cc69b793bbd761ec04eee0b379392dd75f09351 (diff) | |
printf(9): clarify the description of %b
The bit values are numbers given in octal representation, not decimal,
as one might assume from the description. Same goes for the base,
although this has an example.
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39815
(cherry picked from commit 82bc33d5ad2e00179ea7026c496a35b00550da15)
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/printf.9 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/printf.9 b/share/man/man9/printf.9 index 33347fb135ca..631701e455cf 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/printf.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/printf.9 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 14, 2023 +.Dd April 25, 2023 .Dt PRINTF 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -94,11 +94,13 @@ and a These are used as a register value and a print mask for decoding bitmasks. The print mask is made up of two parts: the base and the arguments. -The base value is the output base expressed as an integer value; +The base value is the output base (radix) expressed as an octal value; for example, \e10 gives octal and \e20 gives hexadecimal. The arguments are made up of a sequence of bit identifiers. -Each bit identifier begins with an integer value which is the number of the -bit (starting from 1) this identifier describes. +Each bit identifier begins with an +.Em octal +value which is the number of the bit (starting from 1) this identifier +describes. The rest of the identifier is a string of characters containing the name of the bit. The string is terminated by either the bit number at the start of the next |