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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>2018-11-25 14:17:49 +0100
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Fix consistence in memelem functions
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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diff --git a/man3/libsimple_memrelem.3 b/man3/libsimple_memrelem.3
index f6681e9..26bcfb8 100644
--- a/man3/libsimple_memrelem.3
+++ b/man3/libsimple_memrelem.3
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-.TH LIBSIMPLE_MEMRELEM 3 2018-10-20 libsimple
+.TH LIBSIMPLE_MEMRELEM 3 2018-11-25 libsimple
.SH NAME
libsimple_memrelem \- find aligned byte string in memory
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
#include <libsimple.h>
-void *libsimple_memrelem(const void *\fIhaystack\fP, size_t \fInhaystack\fP, const void *\fIneedle\fP, size_t \fInneedle\fP);
+void *libsimple_memrelem(const void *\fIhaystack\fP, const void *\fIneedle\fP, size_t \fIwidth\fP, size_t \fIn\fP);
#ifndef memrelem
# define memrelem libsimple_memrelem
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ The
function scans the memory segment
.IR haystack ,
with the size
-.IR nhaystack*nneedle ,
+.IR n*width ,
for the last occurence of the byte string
.I needle
with the size
-.IR nneedle ,
+.IR width ,
and with an offset equivalent to zero modulo
-.IR nneedle .
+.IR width .
.PP
The comparison is case-sensitive.
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ The
function returns the pointer
.I s
with a maximal offset such that
-.IR !memcmp(r,needle,nneedle) ,
+.IR !memcmp(r,needle,width) ,
where
.I r
is the returned pointer, and such that
the offset is equivalent to zero modulo
-.IR nneedle .
+.IR width .
If no such offset exists,
.B NULL
is returned.