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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +0000 |
| commit | c45bd688fd44d36732edbafe2f73f68c3a1566bc (patch) | |
| tree | 3193595ecec38b6a54f6edd1d084eed2b67b6a58 /man3/fenv.3 | |
| parent | 6457ee5a49b2d9e6b9c2cf0977a8d480ca2c7bd2 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c45bd688fd44d36732edbafe2f73f68c3a1566bc.tar.gz | |
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man3/fenv.3 b/man3/fenv.3 index 843bea9a03..96c439042a 100644 --- a/man3/fenv.3 +++ b/man3/fenv.3 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ feclearexcept, fegetexceptflag, feraiseexcept, fesetexceptflag, fetestexcept, fegetenv, fegetround, feholdexcept, fesetround, fesetenv, feupdateenv, feenableexcept, fedisableexcept, -fegetexcept \- floating point rounding and exception handling +fegetexcept \- floating-point rounding and exception handling .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <fenv.h> @@ -59,18 +59,18 @@ fegetexcept \- floating point rounding and exception handling Link with \fI\-lm\fP. .SH DESCRIPTION These eleven functions were defined in C99, and describe the handling -of floating point rounding and exceptions (overflow, zero-divide etc.). +of floating-point rounding and exceptions (overflow, zero-divide etc.). .SS Exceptions The DivideByZero exception occurs when an operation on finite numbers produces infinity as exact answer. .LP The Overflow exception occurs when a result has to be represented as a -floating point number, but has (much) larger absolute value than the -largest (finite) floating point number that is representable. +floating-point number, but has (much) larger absolute value than the +largest (finite) floating-point number that is representable. .LP The Underflow exception occurs when a result has to be represented as a -floating point number, but has smaller absolute value than the smallest -positive normalized floating point number (and would lose much accuracy +floating-point number, but has smaller absolute value than the smallest +positive normalized floating-point number (and would lose much accuracy when represented as a denormalized number). .LP The Inexact exception occurs when the rounded result of an operation @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The function sets the rounding mode as specified by its argument and returns zero when it was successful. .SS "Floating point environment" -The entire floating point environment, including +The entire floating-point environment, including control modes and status flags, can be handled as one opaque object, of type .IR fenv_t . @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ ISO C to have round to nearest, all exceptions cleared and a non-stop .LP The .BR fegetenv () -function saves the current floating point environment in the object +function saves the current floating-point environment in the object .IR *envp . .LP The @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ It returns zero when successful. .LP The .BR fesetenv () -function restores the floating point environment from +function restores the floating-point environment from the object .IR *envp . This object must be known to be valid, for example, the result of a call to @@ -224,12 +224,12 @@ It is only defined if .B _GNU_SOURCE is defined. The C99 standard does not define a way to set individual bits in the -floating point mask, for example, to trap on specific flags. +floating-point mask, for example, to trap on specific flags. glibc 2.2 supports the functions .BR feenableexcept () and .BR fedisableexcept () -to set individual floating point traps, and +to set individual floating-point traps, and .BR fegetexcept () to query the state. .sp |