tags 372285 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi Joey and Helmut,

> here's a small addition to makecontext(3) based on Helmut's comment
> in <http://bugs.debian.org/372285>:
> 
> Index: man3/makecontext.3
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/debian/manpages/man3/makecontext.3,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.8
> diff -u -p -r1.1.1.8 makecontext.3
> --- man3/makecontext.3        20 Jun 2006 16:47:38 -0000      1.1.1.8
> +++ man3/makecontext.3        26 Jul 2006 15:52:16 -0000
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ successor context, assigning to \fIucp->
>  When this context is later activated (using \fBsetcontext\fP() or
>  \fBswapcontext\fP()) then first the function \fIfunc\fP is called,
>  with the arguments specified following \fIargc\fP (where \fIargc\fP
> -must contain the number of these arguments), and when this function
> +must contain the number of these arguments of type int), and when this
> function
>  returns, the successor context is activated. When the successor context
>  pointer is NULL, the thread exits.
>  .LP
> 
> Please apply it either directly or adjusted for your needs.

I haven't taken this as is, but have done a few rewrites in the
page including adding some text that mentions that these
arguments are 'int'.

Fix will be in 2.37.

Thanks for the report.

Michael
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