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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2006-10-06 15:39:29 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2006-10-06 15:39:29 +0000
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* include/features.h (__GLIBC_MINOR__): It's glibc 2.5 now.cvs/glibc-2_5-base
2006-10-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * po/pl.po: Update from translation team. * nscd/nscd.c (main): Fix typo in message. Patch by Jakub Bogsz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>.
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@@ -2393,8 +2393,9 @@ This function is similar to @code{sprintf}, except that it dynamically
allocates a string (as with @code{malloc}; @pxref{Unconstrained
Allocation}) to hold the output, instead of putting the output in a
buffer you allocate in advance. The @var{ptr} argument should be the
-address of a @code{char *} object, and @code{asprintf} stores a pointer
-to the newly allocated string at that location.
+address of a @code{char *} object, and a successful call to
+@code{asprintf} stores a pointer to the newly allocated string at that
+location.
The return value is the number of characters allocated for the buffer, or
less than zero if an error occurred. Usually this means that the buffer