All annotated occurences of "errno" in intro(2) are .Va,
except this one which is .Dv - is that intended?

The others talk about the "varible" errno, this one is
an "identifier which expands to an addressable location",
whatever that means.

        Jan


Index: intro.2
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/intro.2,v
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -p -r1.65 intro.2
--- intro.2     5 Sep 2017 03:06:26 -0000       1.65
+++ intro.2     5 Dec 2017 22:01:26 -0000
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Programs may be restricted to a subset o
 .\"<more later...>
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 Nearly all of the system calls provide an error number via the identifier
-.Dv errno ,
+.Va errno ,
 which expands to an addressable location of type
 .Vt int .
 The address of

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