Re: linux man pages: pthread_create(3): oddball comment

[Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/24/13 06:58, Anthony Foiani wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> The man page for pthread_create:
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_create.3.html
> 
> Has some example code at the bottom; one of the invocations includes
> this bit of commentary:
> 
>            8192            # The stack size limit is 8 MB (0x80000 bytes)
> 
> I had to stare at that a bit; I believe it should actually be 0x800000
> (note 5 zeros, not 4).

Yes, of course you are right! I'll fix. Thanks for reporting the problem.

> (I do wish that we -- the computing community -- had managed to come
> up with a sane digits separator for hex, but oh well.  0x80_0000
> maybe?  0x80'0000?  just 0x80,0000?)

Actually, D get's this right -- it allows free use of underscores 
in numeric literals.

Cheers,

Michael

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