Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Tue May 4 05:49:12 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: byteorder.9
Log Message:
Reference bswap(3). Improvements in the HISTORY section. Remove the AUTHORS
(of the man page) section, which does not appear in the original (FreeBSD)
manual page.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
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Index: src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
diff -u src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9:1.4 src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9:1.5
--- src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9:1.4 Fri Oct 2 09:38:29 2009
+++ src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9 Tue May 4 05:49:12 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: byteorder.9,v 1.4 2009/10/02 09:38:29 cegger Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: byteorder.9,v 1.5 2010/05/04 05:49:12 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Mike Barcroft <[email protected]>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9,v 1.6 2003/05/21 17:32:55 ru Exp $
.\"
-.Dd April 10, 2009
+.Dd May 4, 2010
.Dt BYTEORDER 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
functions encode and decode integers to/from octet stream
on any alignment in big/little endian format.
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr bswap 3 ,
.Xr byteorder 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
@@ -185,17 +186,18 @@
.Fn *toh
functions first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
-These functions were introduced to handle PCI bus master devices which assumed
-host's memory used to pass integer parameters via DMA transfer was
-always little endian even on big endian systems.
+These were later ported to
+.Fx 5.0 .
+The functions were originally introduced to handle
+.Tn PCI
+bus master devices, which assumed little endian byte order in
+.Tn DMA
+transfers, even on big endian systems.
.Pp
The encode/decode functions first appeared in
-.Fx 5.1 ,
-and ported to
+.Fx 5.1 .
+These were later ported to
.Nx 3.0
-as a part of
+as a part of the
.Xr uuidgen 2
support.
-.Sh AUTHORS
-This manual page was written by
-.An Mike Barcroft Aq [email protected] .
