trivial doc fix: remove weird phrase "syscall takes zero to five arguments"

"number of arguments, from zero to five" is wrong, because on Linux maximal number
of arguments is 6, not 5. Also, maximal number of arguments is kernel-dependent,
so let's not include it here at all.

Moreover, "Each kind of system call has a definite number of arguments" is questionable.
Think about SYS_open on Linux, which takes 2 or 3 arguments. Or SYS_clone on Linux x86_64, which
takes 2 to 5 arguments. So I propose to fully remove this sentence.

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

diff --git a/manual/startup.texi b/manual/startup.texi
index 9bf24123f562f75ba27a4770c69147e003b94755..96a7a472bb9b1a284702d2874051869fa96d64aa 100644 (file)
--- a/manual/startup.texi
+++ b/manual/startup.texi
@@ -727,8 +727,7 @@ identified by a number.  Macros for all the possible system call numbers
 are defined in @file{sys/syscall.h}
 
 The remaining arguments are the arguments for the system call, in
-order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.  Each kind
-of system call has a definite number of arguments, from zero to five.
+order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.
 If you code more arguments than the system call takes, the extra ones to
 the right are ignored.