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authorBjörn-Egil Dahlberg <[email protected]>2016-10-20 14:08:31 +0200
committerBjörn-Egil Dahlberg <[email protected]>2016-10-24 10:54:47 +0200
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erl_interface: Fix editorial changes
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diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml
index 6d416028a5..9b01f4af98 100644
--- a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml
+++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
buffer must be allocated large enough, and for non-compound types
the <c><![CDATA[ei_get_type()]]></c>
function returns the size required (notice that for strings an
- extra byte is needed for the 0 string terminator).</p>
+ extra byte is needed for the <c>NULL</c>-terminator).</p>
</description>
<section>
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@ typedef enum {
ERLANG_ASCII = 1,
ERLANG_LATIN1 = 2,
ERLANG_UTF8 = 4
-}erlang_char_encoding;</code>
+} erlang_char_encoding;</code>
<p>The character encodings used for atoms. <c>ERLANG_ASCII</c>
represents 7-bit ASCII. Latin-1 and UTF-8 are different extensions
of 7-bit ASCII. All 7-bit ASCII characters are valid Latin-1 and
UTF-8 characters. ASCII and Latin-1 both represent each character
- by one byte. An UTF-8 character can consist of 1-4 bytes.
- Notice that these
- constants are bit-flags and can be combined with bitwise OR.</p>
+ by one byte. An UTF-8 character can consist of 1-4 bytes.
+ Notice that these constants are bit-flags and can be combined with
+ bitwise OR.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
</section>
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ typedef enum {
<p>Encodes an atom in the binary format. Parameter <c><![CDATA[p]]></c>
is the name of the atom in Latin-1 encoding. Only up to
<c>MAXATOMLEN-1</c> bytes
- are encoded. The name is to be zero-terminated, except for
+ are encoded. The name is to be <c>NULL</c>-terminated, except for
the <c><![CDATA[ei_x_encode_atom_len()]]></c> function.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ typedef enum {
(Latin-1 or UTF-8). Parameter <c>p</c> is the name of the atom with
character encoding
<seealso marker="#erlang_char_encoding"><c>from_enc</c></seealso>
- (ASCII, Latin-1, or UTF-8). The name must either be zero-terminated or
+ (ASCII, Latin-1, or UTF-8). The name must either be <c>NULL</c>-terminated or
a function variant with a <c>len</c> parameter must be used.
If <c>to_enc</c> is set to the bitwise OR'd combination
<c>(ERLANG_LATIN1|ERLANG_UTF8)</c>, UTF-8 encoding is only used if the
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ ei_x_encode_string(&amp;x, "Banana");</pre>
<desc>
<p>Encodes a string in the binary format. (A string in Erlang
is a list, but is encoded as a character array in the binary
- format.) The string is to be zero-terminated, except for
+ format.) The string is to be <c>NULL</c>-terminated, except for
the <c><![CDATA[ei_x_encode_string_len()]]></c> function.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ ei_encode_tuple_header(buf, &amp;i, 0);</pre>
<p>Returns the type in <c><![CDATA[type]]></c> and size in
<c><![CDATA[size]]></c> of the encoded term. For strings and atoms,
size is the number of characters <em>not</em> including the
- terminating 0. For binaries, <c><![CDATA[size]]></c> is the number of
+ terminating <c>NULL</c>. For binaries, <c><![CDATA[size]]></c> is the number of
bytes. For lists and tuples, <c><![CDATA[size]]></c> is the arity of
the object. For other types, <c><![CDATA[size]]></c> is 0. In all
cases, <c><![CDATA[index]]></c> is left unchanged.</p>
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ ei_encode_tuple_header(buf, &amp;i, 0);</pre>
<c><![CDATA[BUFSIZ]]></c> bytes or a <c>NULL</c> pointer. The string
can be reallocated (and <c><![CDATA[*s]]></c> can be updated) by this
function if the result is more than <c><![CDATA[BUFSIZ]]></c>
- characters. The string returned is zero-terminated.</p>
+ characters. The string returned is <c>NULL</c>-terminated.</p>
<p>The return value is the number of characters written to the file
or string, or <c>-1</c> if <c><![CDATA[buf[index]]]></c> does not
contain a valid term.