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Alejandro Colomar Oct. 20, 2020, 2:21 p.m. UTC 
  Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
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 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 These macros define and operate on doubly-linked lists.
+.Pp
+In the macro definitions,
+.Fa TYPE
+is the name of a user defined structure,
+that must contain a field of type
+.Li SLIST_ENTRY ,
+.Li STAILQ_ENTRY ,
+.Li LIST_ENTRY ,
+.Li TAILQ_ENTRY ,
+or
+.Li CIRCLEQ_ENTRY ,
+named
+.Fa NAME .
+The argument
+.Fa HEADNAME
+is the name of a user defined structure that must be declared
+using the macros
+.Li SLIST_HEAD ,
+.Li STAILQ_HEAD ,
+.Li LIST_HEAD ,
+.Li TAILQ_HEAD ,
+or
+.Li CIRCLEQ_HEAD .
+See the examples below for further explanation of how these
+macros are used.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .SH BUGS