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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-08-01 17:20:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-08-10 13:38:36 +0000 |
| commit | 8ae81fa9c4bc162bf505b80ef6e389d4e87ef6ec (patch) | |
| tree | 66de13559c9ca755aa53b0e1e50d8adf9f5d633b /lib/libc/net | |
| parent | b9dd766aa8e6ede5c46aaf307ccacbc7454d4049 (diff) | |
inet.3: remove mention of VAX endianness
Machine endianness is not very important in understanding the inet*
functions; the endianness of the VAX is especially so.
PR: 272728
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 89c762c815dae64a39221956070af549b11ceb80)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/inet.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 index cb44394d0a0c..7a5d888a4951 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/inet.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/inet.3 @@ -191,17 +191,6 @@ a When four parts are specified, each is interpreted as a byte of data and assigned, from left to right, to the four bytes of an Internet address. -Note -that when an Internet address is viewed as a 32-bit -integer quantity on the -.Tn VAX -the bytes referred to -above appear as -.Dq Li d.c.b.a . -That is, -.Tn VAX -bytes are -ordered from right to left. .Pp When a three part address is specified, the last part is interpreted as a 16-bit quantity and placed |