Re: assert

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On 25.09.2013 15:18, Jon Grant wrote:
> Hello mtk
> 
> Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality?
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html
> 
>        "The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his
>        program.  The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function
>        do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user."
> 
> 
> NB. This may apply to other man pages.

Hi Jon,

I fixed four pages along the lines you suggest.

Cheers,

Michael


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