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| author | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2018-11-21 01:15:43 +0100 |
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| committer | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2018-11-21 01:15:43 +0100 |
| commit | 39a7be7ea3c952483cda6eedfbebe902d4d08b0e (patch) | |
| tree | 512293caf11f5f264f3da7ee7aed440507f71130 | |
| parent | 8e50556f14d6fc1271c606dce05f1229bed7ae93 (diff) | |
| download | plan9front-39a7be7ea3c952483cda6eedfbebe902d4d08b0e.tar.xz | |
mp(2): clarify mptoa() and mpfmt() default base
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/2/mp | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/2/mp b/sys/man/2/mp index 7d10b2b1c..68769505e 100644 --- a/sys/man/2/mp +++ b/sys/man/2/mp @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ and .B mpint representations using the base indicated. Only the bases 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 32, and 64 are -supported. Base 0 defaults to 16. +supported. .IR Strtomp skips any leading spaces or tabs. .IR Strtomp 's @@ -397,18 +397,25 @@ If the parse terminates before any digits are found, return .BR nil . .I Mptoa -returns a pointer to the filled buffer. +returns a pointer to the +.SM ASCII +filled buffer. If the parameter .I buf is .BR nil , the buffer is allocated. +Setting +.I base +to zero uses hexadecimal default. .I Mpfmt can be used with .IR fmtinstall (2) and .IR print (2) -to print hexadecimal representations of +to print +.SM ASCII +representations of .BR mpint s. The conventional verb is .LR B , @@ -416,6 +423,8 @@ for which .I mp.h provides a .LR pragma . +The precisition in the format string changes the base, +defaulting to hexadecimal when omited. .PP .I Mptobe and |