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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ * locale/nl_langinfo.c: Correct return value in error case. Don't set errno (PR libc/1582). + * manual/locale.texi: Update to reflect change. 2000-02-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> diff --git a/manual/locale.texi b/manual/locale.texi index 9d1dd8cf21..75564d9f27 100644 --- a/manual/locale.texi +++ b/manual/locale.texi @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ to use for all purposes except as overridden by the variables above. @vindex LANGUAGE When developing the message translation functions it was felt that the functionality provided by the variables above is not sufficient. For -example, it should be possible to specify more than one locale name. +example, it should be possible to specify more than one locale name. Take a Swedish user who better speaks German than English, and a program whose messages are output in English by default. It should be possible to specify that the first choice of language is Swedish, the second @@ -878,8 +878,8 @@ appropriate category, @code{nl_langinfo} returns the information from the @code{"C"} locale. It is therefore possible to use this function as shown in the example below. -If the argument @var{item} is not valid, the global variable @var{errno} -is set to @code{EINVAL} and a @code{NULL} pointer is returned. +If the argument @var{item} is not valid, a pointer to an empty string is +returned. @end deftypefun An example of @code{nl_langinfo} usage is a function which has to |