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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document M_PERTURB
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

> I think it should also say "... depending on the low-order byte of
> this value," so nobody can think that passing in more than 8 bits has
> any effect.

Depends on how much of it is considered an implementation detail.

Andreas.

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