changeset 20474:97edbce9b975 stable

doc: Clarify that ARCH argument to fread overrides ARCH arg to fopen. * file-io.cc (Ffread): Clarify that ARCH argument to fread overrides ARCH arg to fopen.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:55:59 -0700
parents 8fcbb55745ef
children 4c4d8fe5583a
files libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc	Sun Aug 09 20:24:42 2015 -0700
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc	Tue Aug 11 09:55:59 2015 -0700
@@ -1609,7 +1609,12 @@
 IEEE little endian.\n\
 @end table\n\
 \n\
+If no @var{arch} is given the value used in the call to @code{fopen} which\n\
+created the file descriptor is used.  Otherwise, the value specified with\n\
+@code{fread} overrides that of @code{fopen} and determines the data format.\n\
+\n\
 The output argument @var{val} contains the data read from the file.\n\
+\n\
 The optional return value @var{count} contains the number of elements read.\n\
 @seealso{fwrite, fgets, fgetl, fscanf, fopen}\n\
 @end deftypefn")