Michael -- On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/24/13 06:58, Anthony Foiani wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> The man page for pthread_create: >> >> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_create.3.html >> >> Has some example code at the bottom; one of the invocations includes >> this bit of commentary: >> >> 8192 # The stack size limit is 8 MB (0x80000 bytes) >> >> I had to stare at that a bit; I believe it should actually be 0x800000 >> (note 5 zeros, not 4). > > Yes, of course you are right! I'll fix. Thanks for reporting the problem. You're welcome. Thank *you* for your work on this project! And looking at it again, depending on your taste, "8 MiB" might actually be more correct. (I rather like the binary prefixes, but I realize that there is still some division of opinion.) > Actually, D get's this right -- it allows free use of underscores > in numeric literals. Indeed. Perl does as well. I just wish there were something that all the languages agreed upon (or, at least, most; e.g., "0x" is a nearly universal, other than some assemblers (IIRC) that used "$".) Anyway. Water well under the bridge by now. Best regards, Anthony Foiani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
