commit 3879315738e567ee3a421cb05a89976f61d27eb9
author Shane Carr <shane@unicode.org> Tue Aug 13 01:06:43 2019 -0700
committer Shane F. Carr <shane@unicode.org> Wed Aug 14 17:49:04 2019 -0700
tree 58f47426fc68f8d6f7cc891fb9f576ec4061bf53
parent 4785f55622c8aa59cfd0ba625e066532859c3fd4

ICU-13596 Clarifying error code type in numfmt.h parse()

icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/numfmt.h

diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/numfmt.h b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/numfmt.h
index c06f87b..468a822 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/numfmt.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/numfmt.h
@@ -641,7 +641,9 @@
      * @param result        Formattable to be set to the parse result.
      *                      If parse fails, return contents are undefined.
      * @param status        Output parameter set to a failure error code
-     *                      when a failure occurs.
+     *                      when a failure occurs. The error code when the
+     *                      string fails to parse is U_INVALID_FORMAT_ERROR,
+     *                      unless overridden by a subclass.
      * @see                 NumberFormat::isParseIntegerOnly
      * @stable ICU 2.0
      */