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diff --git a/manual/signal.texi b/manual/signal.texi index 1d28f74027..cbf746639a 100644 --- a/manual/signal.texi +++ b/manual/signal.texi @@ -2029,8 +2029,8 @@ This is an integer data type. Objects of this type are always accessed atomically. @end deftp -In practice, you can assume that @code{int} and other integer types no -longer than @code{int} are atomic. You can also assume that pointer +In practice, you can assume that @code{int} is atomic. +You can also assume that pointer types are atomic; that is very convenient. Both of these assumptions are true on all of the machines that the GNU C library supports and on all POSIX systems we know of. |