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@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ Should also work on:
   - Android
   - NetBSD 5
   - OpenBSD
-  - Darwin
 
 (more testing needed before claiming support for these OS).
 
@@ -176,7 +175,7 @@ This is the preferred version of the library, in terms of
 grace-period detection speed, read-side speed and flexibility.
 Dynamically detects kernel support for `sys_membarrier()`. Falls back
 on `urcu-mb` scheme if support is not present, which has slower
-read-side. Use the --disable-sys-membarrier-fallback configure option
+read-side. Use the `--disable-sys-membarrier-fallback` configure option
 to disable the fall back, thus requiring `sys_membarrier()` to be
 available. This gives a small speedup when `sys_membarrier()` is
 supported by the kernel, and aborts in the library constructor if not
@@ -251,6 +250,14 @@ protected pointer.
 After, `urcu_<flavor>_synchronize_rcu()` must be called. When it
 returns, the old values are not in usage anymore.
 
+As an alternative to `urcu_<flavor>_synchronize_rcu()`,
+it is also possible to use the urcu polling mechanism to wait for a
+grace period to elapse. This can be done by using
+`urcu_<flavor>_start_poll_synchronize_rcu()`
+to start the grace period polling, and then invoke
+`urcu_<flavor>_poll_state_synchronize_rcu()`, which returns true if
+the grace period has completed, false otherwise.
+
 
 ### Usage of `liburcu-defer`
 
@@ -414,7 +421,7 @@ theoretically yielding slightly better performance.
 By default the library is configured with extra debugging checks for
 lock-free hash table iterator traversal disabled.
 
-Building liburcu with --enable-cds-lfht-iter-debug and rebuilding
+Building liburcu with `--enable-cds-lfht-iter-debug` and rebuilding
 application to match the ABI change allows finding cases where the hash
 table iterator is re-purposed to be used on a different hash table while
 still being used to iterate on a hash table.
@@ -448,7 +455,7 @@ follows:
 
   - An application executable is built with `_LGPL_SOURCE` defined, includes
     any of the Userspace RCU 0.10 urcu flavor headers, and is built
-    without the -fpic compiler option.
+    without the `-fpic` compiler option.
 
   - The Userspace RCU 0.10 library shared objects are updated to 0.11
     or 0.12 without rebuilding the application.
@@ -460,7 +467,7 @@ Some possible work-arounds for this are:
 
   - Rebuild the application against Userspace RCU 0.11+.
 
-  - Rebuild the application with -fpic.
+  - Rebuild the application with `-fpic`.
 
   - Upgrade Userspace RCU to 0.13+ without installing 0.11 nor 0.12.