From 7ec84f335ad5fb4672305723762810836fa080e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 21:29:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Move the note about sys_errlist[] users to COMPATIBILITY, and
 strengthen it.

---
 lib/libc/string/strerror.3 | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
index 0f26eb144c70..5fbf30692db4 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: strerror.3,v 1.23 2020/04/04 21:26:44 dholland Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: strerror.3,v 1.24 2020/04/04 21:29:54 dholland Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ The use of these variables is deprecated;
 one of the
 .Fn strerror
 family of functions should be used instead.
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+Programs that attempt to use the deprecated
+.Va sys_errlist
+variable often fail to compile because they provide their own,
+inconsistent, declaration of it.
+Such programs should be updated to use
+.Fn strerror .
 .Sh ERRORS
 These functions may fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
@@ -280,8 +287,3 @@ and
 .Fn strerror_l
 use the same thread local storage; a call to either will destroy
 the result from an earlier call by the same thread of either of them.
-.Pp
-Programs that use the deprecated
-.Va sys_errlist
-variable often fail to compile because they declare it
-inconsistently.