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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 | |
| parent | 6457ee5a49b2d9e6b9c2cf0977a8d480ca2c7bd2 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c45bd688fd44d36732edbafe2f73f68c3a1566bc.tar.gz | |
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/INFINITY.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/__setfpucw.3 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/fenv.3 | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/finite.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/scanf.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/significand.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strtod.3 | 2 |
8 files changed, 21 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/man3/INFINITY.3 b/man3/INFINITY.3 index 5fda7dede4..ac27fece1d 100644 --- a/man3/INFINITY.3 +++ b/man3/INFINITY.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" .TH INFINITY 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -INFINITY, NAN, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL \- floating point constants +INFINITY, NAN, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL \- floating-point constants .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #define _ISOC99_SOURCE diff --git a/man3/__setfpucw.3 b/man3/__setfpucw.3 index b631ff7e06..c4e015337b 100644 --- a/man3/__setfpucw.3 +++ b/man3/__setfpucw.3 @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ __setfpucw \- set FPU control word on i386 architecture (obsolete) .BR __setfpucw () transfers .I control_word -to the registers of the FPU (floating point unit) on the i386 architecture. -This was used to control floating point precision, -rounding and floating point exceptions. +to the registers of the FPU (floating-point unit) on the i386 architecture. +This was used to control floating-point precision, +rounding and floating-point exceptions. .SH CONFORMING TO This function was a non-standard GNU extension. .SH NOTES @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ There are new functions from C99, with prototypes in to control FPU rounding modes, like .IR fegetround , .IR fesetround , -and the floating point environment, like +and the floating-point environment, like .IR fegetenv , .IR feholdexcept , .IR fesetenv , 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 diff --git a/man3/finite.3 b/man3/finite.3 index 4f9a004db6..9bd2f6ed56 100644 --- a/man3/finite.3 +++ b/man3/finite.3 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .TH FINITE 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME finite, finitef, finitel, isinf, isinff, isinfl, isnan, isnanf, isnanl \- -BSD floating point classification functions +BSD floating-point classification functions .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <math.h> diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 0d470b7613..d765cd3d6f 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ comes from untrusted user input, it may contain \fB%n\fP, causing the .BR printf () call to write to memory and creating a security hole. .\" .PP -.\" Some floating point conversions under early libc4 +.\" Some floating-point conversions under early libc4 .\" caused memory leaks. .SH EXAMPLE .if \w'\*(Pi'=0 .ds Pi pi diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3 index eb89b0d54b..811ab93f33 100644 --- a/man3/scanf.3 +++ b/man3/scanf.3 @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ or .B _GNU_SOURCE is also specified), in which case the .B a -is interpreted as a specifier for floating point numbers (see above). +is interpreted as a specifier for floating-point numbers (see above). Since version 2.7, glibc also provides the .B m diff --git a/man3/significand.3 b/man3/significand.3 index e192b4a5c9..f254f87377 100644 --- a/man3/significand.3 +++ b/man3/significand.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ .TH SIGNIFICAND 3 2007-07-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME significand, significandf, significandl \- -get mantissa of floating point number +get mantissa of floating-point number .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include <math.h> .sp diff --git a/man3/strtod.3 b/man3/strtod.3 index d1e54d159e..d38cdc3360 100644 --- a/man3/strtod.3 +++ b/man3/strtod.3 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ .\" .TH STRTOD 3 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -strtod, strtof, strtold \- convert ASCII string to floating point number +strtod, strtof, strtold \- convert ASCII string to floating-point number .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include <stdlib.h> .sp |