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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index f2913af..afcd8a5 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -3769,7 +3769,16 @@ provide one place to do modifications to port the system. @table @asis -@item @code{xsnprintf} [(@code{char buffer[], char* format, ...}) @arrow{} @code{int}] +@item @code{xasprintf} [(@code{char* buffer, ...}) @arrow{} @code{int}] +This is a wrapper for @code{asprintf} that has two +important properties, the buffer is guaranteed to +be @code{NULL} on failure, and it will return zero +on and only on success. Unlike @code{asprintf}, +@code{xasprintf} takes the buffer's variable as +its first argument rather than the address of that +variable. + +@item @code{xsnprintf} [(@code{char buffer[], ...}) @arrow{} @code{int}] This is a wrapper for @code{snprintf} that allows you to forget about the buffer size. When you know how long a string can be, you should use @code{sprintf}. But when @@ -3897,6 +3906,13 @@ on success. On failure, @code{var} will be into another variable in case this macro fails. +@item @code{xxrealloc} [(@code{type* old, type* var, size_t elements, type}) @arrow{} @code{int}] +Variant of @code{xrealloc} that will +return with @code{old} set to @code{NULL} +on success, and @code{old} set to @code{var} +on error. Like @code{xrealloc}, @code{xxrealloc} +returns zero on and only on success. + @item @code{growalloc} [(@code{type* old, type* var, size_t elements, type}) @arrow{} @code{int}] When using this macro @code{var} should be a @code{type*} pointer allocated for @@ -5781,10 +5797,9 @@ function less_eq/2 end function @end example -A final constract to make layout code less +A final construct to make layout code less repetitive is let-statements. This can be -used to assign values to variables, and -declar variables in undefined. +used to assign values to variables. The code @@ -5800,7 +5815,7 @@ macro latter/1 end macro @end example -can equivalently be writen using @code{let} as +can equivalently be written using @code{let} as @example macro latter/1 @@ -5853,6 +5868,15 @@ macro and function names must be suffixed with `/' follwed by the exact number of arguments the macro or function takes. +Variable indices are constrained to the 31:th power +of 2, exclusively. Attempts to use higher variable +indices invoke undefined behaviour. Additionally +there is no guarantee that the compiler allocates +indexwise spares variables efficiently. + +Like variables, the size of arrays are also +restricted to the 31:th power of 2. + @node Escaping |