-.\" $OpenBSD: panic.9,v 1.9 2014/07/13 23:03:03 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: panic.9,v 1.10 2021/05/16 15:11:08 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: panic.9,v 1.2 1996/10/09 17:20:04 explorer Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Michael Graff.
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2021 $
.Dt PANIC 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
is a
.Xr printf 9
style format string.
-The message is printed to the console and the location
+The message is printed to the console (with a newline) and the location
pointed to by the global char pointer
.Fa panicstr
is set to the address of the message text for retrieval from the OS