Re: wmempcpy

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Just wondering if this could be re-phrased to avoid starting sentence with
> "but":

Hi Jon,

I'm not too worried about this.

Cheers,

Michael


> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/wmempcpy.3.html
>
> "But instead.."
>
> How about simply removing "But" and adding a comma after "dest', so it
> becomes:
>
> Instead of returning the value of dest, it returns a pointer to the byte
> following the last written byte."
>
> -- I'd be tempted to also say "after" rather than "following", to keep the
> words shorter!
>
> Best regards, Jon
>



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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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