document that silent truncation isn't a possiblity because abort() is used as a backstop. Notes: Mon Sep 27 12:29:28 EDT 2010 geoff Not true on 386 and amd64; the manual page is correct. Reference: /n/sources/patch/sorry/muldivman Date: Mon Sep 27 02:13:25 CES 2010 Signed-off-by: quanstro@quanstro.net Reviewed-by: geoff --- /sys/man/2/muldiv Mon Sep 27 02:13:00 2010 +++ /sys/man/2/muldiv Mon Sep 27 02:12:59 2010 @@ -28,4 +28,8 @@ .B long or .BR ulong ; -on others they will silently truncate. +on others +.BR abort (2) +is called to avoid slient truncation. +.SH SOURCE +.B /sys/src/libc/port