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Remove some trailing whitespace and unnecessary macro argument quoting; 

some other minor fixes.
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wiz 2004-10-27 00:41:31 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: bitmask_snprintf.9,v 1.6 2004/10/26 20:58:10 heas Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: bitmask_snprintf.9,v 1.7 2004/10/27 00:41:31 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ and
.Dq new .
The main advantage of the
.Dq new
formating being that it is capable of handling multi-bit fields.
formatting is that it is capable of handling multi-bit fields.
.Pp
The first character of
.Fa fmt
@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ indicating that the remainder of the format string follows the
.Dq new
syntax.
The second character
.Pq "the first for the old format"
.Pq the first for the old format
is a binary character representation of the
output numeral base in which the bitfield will be printed before it is decoded.
Recognized radix values
.Pq "in C escape-character format"
.Pq in C escape-character format
are
.Li \e10
.Pq octal ,
@ -104,14 +104,14 @@ Each begins with a binary character value that represents the position
of the bit being described.
A bit position value of one describes the least significant bit.
Whereas a position value of 32
.Pq "octal 40, hexadecimal 20, the ASCII space character"
.Pq octal 40, hexadecimal 20, the ASCII space character
describes the most significant bit.
.Pp
The remaining characters in a bit-position\(endescription pair are the
characters to print should the bit being described be set.
Description strings are delimited by the next bit position value character
encountered
.Pq "distinguishable by its value being \*[Le] 32" ,
.Pq distinguishable by its value being \*[Le] 32 ,
or the end of the decoding directive string itself.
.Pp
For the
@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ syntax where it is one.
.Bl -tag -width "xxxxx"
.It Cm b\eB
Describes a bit position.
The bit-position
The bit-position
.Fa B
indicates the corresponding bit, as in the
.Dq old
@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Describes a multi-bit field like
.Sq f ,
but just extracts the value for use with the
.Sq \&=
and
and
.Sq \&:
formatting directives described below.
.It Cm \&=\eV
@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ or
.Sq F
operator is compared to the byte
.Sq Cm V
.Pq "for values 0 through 255" .
.Pq for values 0 through 255 .
If they are equal,
.Sq \&=
followed by the string following
@ -172,10 +172,10 @@ operator, but omits the leading
.Sq \&= .
.El
.Pp
Finally, each field is delimited by a NULL
.Pq "\e0"
Finally, each field is delimited by a NUL
.Pq Sq\e0
character.
By convention, the format string has an additional NULL character at
By convention, the format string has an additional NUL character at
the end, following that delimiting the last bit-position\(endescription
pair.
.Pp
@ -240,4 +240,4 @@ and earlier releases.
The
.Dq new
format was the invention of
.An "Chris Torek" .
.An Chris Torek .