[llvm] r372865 - [docs][llvm-strings] Clarify "printable character" wording
James Henderson via llvm-commits
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Sep 25 06:09:18 PDT 2019
Author: jhenderson
Date: Wed Sep 25 06:09:17 2019
New Revision: 372865
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=372865&view=rev
Log:
[docs][llvm-strings] Clarify "printable character" wording
The --bytes option uses the phrase "printable ASCII characters", but the
description section used simply "printable characters". To avoid any
confusion about locale impacts etc, this change adopts the former's
phrasing in both places. It also fixes a minor grammar issue in the
description.
Reviewed by: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68016
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst?rev=372865&r1=372864&r2=372865&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst Wed Sep 25 06:09:17 2019
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
:program:`llvm-strings` is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU's
:program:`strings`, which looks for printable strings in files and writes them
to the standard output stream. A printable string is any sequence of four (by
-default) or more printable characters. The end of the file, or any other byte
-terminates the current sequence.
+default) or more printable ASCII characters. The end of the file, or any other
+byte, terminates the current sequence.
:program:`llvm-strings` looks for strings in each ``input`` file specified.
Unlike GNU :program:`strings` it looks in the entire input file, regardless of
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