ncurses 5.5

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_printw.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x
index 3b9c35825234547eefe33fe9db9de1ff5b53b70d..ecb9d171ca5af80f416f4838e6312984b04ecb5b 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_printw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_printw.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,28 +26,32 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.12 2002/07/20 15:01:43 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.15 2005/05/15 16:55:16 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_printw 3X ""
+.na
+.hy 0
 .SH NAME
 \fBprintw\fR,
 \fBwprintw\fR,
 \fBmvprintw\fR,
 \fBmvwprintw\fR,
 \fBvwprintw\fR, \fBvw_printw\fR - print formatted output in \fBcurses\fR windows
+.ad
+.hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 
-\fBint printw(char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint printw(const char *fmt, ...);\fR
 .br
-\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
 .br
-\fBint mvprintw(int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
 .br
-\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
 .br
-\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
 .br
-\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The \fBprintw\fR, \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR and \fBmvwprintw\fR
@@ -64,6 +68,12 @@ list of arguments, as defined in \fB<stdarg.h>\fR.
 Routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR
 (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful
 completion.
+.PP
+X/Open defines no error conditions.
+In this implementation,
+an error may be returned if it cannot allocate enough memory for the
+buffer used to format the results.
+It will return an error if the window pointer is null.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  The function
 \fBvwprintw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function