From b79f558263b14dae76a44bc71b0902208557e0d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: наб Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:35:45 +0200 Subject: regex.3: Desoupify regcomp() description MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Behold: regerror() is passed the error code, errcode, the pattern buffer, preg, a pointer to a character string buffer, errbuf, and the size of the string buffer, errbuf_size. Absolute soup. This reads to me like an ill-conceived copy from a very early standard version. It looks fine in source form but is horrific to read as running text. Instead, replace all of these with just the descriptions of what they do with their arguments. What the arguments are is very clearly noted in big bold in the prototypes. Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- man3/regex.3 | 22 +++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 index 129c42412..2f6ee816f 100644 --- a/man3/regex.3 +++ b/man3/regex.3 @@ -38,21 +38,13 @@ for subsequent .BR regexec () searches. .PP -.BR regcomp () -is supplied with -.IR preg , -a pointer to a pattern buffer storage area; -.IR regex , -a pointer to the null-terminated string and -.IR cflags , -flags used to determine the type of compilation. -.PP -All regular expression searching must be done via a compiled pattern -buffer, thus -.BR regexec () -must always be supplied with the address of a -.BR regcomp ()-initialized -pattern buffer. +On success, the pattern buffer at +.I *preg +is initialized. +.I regex +is a null-terminated string. +The locale must be the same when running +.BR regexec (). .PP .I cflags is the -- cgit v1.2.3