(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.52.

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diff --git a/original/man3/memmem.3 b/original/man3/memmem.3
index b450f3a..7b97d2d 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/memmem.3
+++ b/original/man3/memmem.3
@@ -42,8 +42,15 @@ memmem \- locate a substring
 The
 .BR memmem ()
 function finds the start of the first occurrence
-of the substring \fIneedle\fP of length \fIneedlelen\fP in the memory
-area \fIhaystack\fP of length \fIhaystacklen\fP.
+of the substring
+.IR needle
+of length
+.I needlelen
+in the memory
+area
+.I haystack
+of length
+.IR haystacklen .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR memmem ()
@@ -53,14 +60,25 @@ substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.
 This function is a GNU extension.
 .SH BUGS
 This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9;
-there the \fIneedle\fP and \fIhaystack\fP arguments were interchanged,
-and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of \fIneedle\fP
+there the
+.IR needle
+and
+.I haystack
+arguments were interchanged,
+and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of
+.I needle
 was returned.
 
-Both old and new libc's have the bug that if \fIneedle\fP is empty,
-\fIhaystack\-1\fP (instead of \fIhaystack\fP) is returned.
+Both old and new libc's have the bug that if
+.I needle
+is empty,
+.I haystack\-1
+(instead of
+.IR haystack )
+is returned.
 And glibc 2.0 makes it worse, returning a pointer to the
-last byte of \fIhaystack\fP.
+last byte of
+.IR haystack .
 This is fixed in glibc 2.1.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR strstr (3)