From: Alejandro Colomar Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:47:15 +0000 (+0200) Subject: system_data_types.7: wfix X-Git-Tag: man-pages-5.09~305 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=097a4463ddb58d29bafc4d44bce2056eaaa80aab;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git system_data_types.7: wfix A limit can be defined by other than POSIX Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7 index d050c437ca..6a078270a4 100644 --- a/man7/system_data_types.7 +++ b/man7/system_data_types.7 @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ or should be used. When copying from the temporary variable to the destination variable, the value could overflow. -If POSIX provides lower and upper limits to the type, +If the type has upper and lower limits, the user should check that the value is within those limits, before actually copying the value. The example below shows how these conversions should be done.