Author: eadler
Date: Thu Oct 4 01:33:48 2012
New Revision: 241172
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241172
Log:
MFC r241062:
clarify the wording for 'first' and 'last'
Approved by: cperciva (implicit)
Modified:
stable/8/lib/libc/string/ffs.3
Directory Properties:
stable/8/lib/libc/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/8/lib/libc/string/ffs.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/lib/libc/string/ffs.3 Thu Oct 4 01:26:13 2012
(r241171)
+++ stable/8/lib/libc/string/ffs.3 Thu Oct 4 01:33:48 2012
(r241172)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" @(#)ffs.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 3, 2011
+.Dd September 29, 2012
.Dt FFS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ The
.Fn ffsl
and
.Fn ffsll
-functions find the first bit set
-(beginning with the least significant bit)
+functions find the first (least significant) bit set
in
.Fa value
and return the index of that bit.
@@ -74,11 +73,11 @@ The
.Fn flsl
and
.Fn flsll
-functions find the last bit set in
+functions find the last (most significant) bit set in
.Fa value
and return the index of that bit.
.Pp
-Bits are numbered starting at 1 (the least significant bit).
+Bits are numbered starting at 1, the least significant bit.
A return value of zero from any of these functions means that the
argument was zero.
.Sh SEE ALSO
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