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diff --git a/doc/miscellaneous.tex b/doc/miscellaneous.tex index 312d01c..8750595 100644 --- a/doc/miscellaneous.tex +++ b/doc/miscellaneous.tex @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ a proper UCS minus sign is not supported. Using what we have learned so far, and {\tt zstr} which we will learn about in \secref{sec:String output}, we can construct a simple program that calculates the -sum of a set of number. +sum of a set of numbers. \begin{alltt} \textcolor{c}{#include <stdio.h> @@ -153,10 +153,10 @@ there are cases where it is needed. In some case \noindent however its implementation is optimised to be around three times as fast. It just swaps the members -of the parameters, and thereby the values, There +of the parameters, and thereby the values. There is no rewriting of {\tt .chars} involved; thus it runs in constant time. It also does not -require that any argument has be initialised. +require that any argument has been initialised. After the call, {\tt a} will be initialised if and only if {\tt b} was initialised, and vice versa. @@ -301,11 +301,11 @@ The return for {\tt zcmpmag} value is defined \vspace{1em} \noindent -It is discouraged, stylistically, to compare -against, $-1$ and $+1$, rather, you should -always compare against $0$. Think of it as -returning $a - b$, or $\lvert a \rvert - \lvert b \rvert$ -in the case of {\tt zcmpmag}. +It is discouraged, stylistically, to compare against +$-1$ and $+1$, rather, you should always compare +against $0$. Think of it as returning $a - b$, or +$\lvert a \rvert - \lvert b \rvert$ in the case of +{\tt zcmpmag}. \newpage @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ run the same version of libzahl, and run on compatible microarchitectures, that is, the processors must have endianness, and the intrinsic integer types in C must have the same widths on all processors. When this is not -the case, string conversion (see \secref{sec:Assignment} +the case, string conversion can be used (see \secref{sec:Assignment} and \secref{sec:String output}), but when it is the case {\tt zsave} and {\tt zload} can be used. {\tt zsave} and {\tt zload} are declared as @@ -331,11 +331,11 @@ and \secref{sec:String output}), but when it is the case \end{alltt} \noindent -{\tt zsave} stores a version- and microarchitecture-depend +{\tt zsave} stores a version- and microarchitecture-dependent binary representation of {\tt a} in {\tt buf}, and returns the number of bytes written to {\tt buf}. If {\tt buf} is -{\tt NULL}, the numbers that will be written is returned. -{\tt zload} unmarshals an integers from {\tt buf}, created -with {\tt zsave}, into {\tt a}, and returns the number of -read bytes. {\tt zload} and will return the value returned -by {\tt zsave}. +{\tt NULL}, the numbers bytes that would have be written is +returned. {\tt zload} unmarshals an integers from {\tt buf}, +created with {\tt zsave}, into {\tt a}, and returns the number +of read bytes. {\tt zload} returns the value returned by +{\tt zsave}. |