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@@ -156,21 +156,7 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
-.PP
-.BR strtod ()
-was also described in C89.
-.SH NOTES
-Since
-0 can legitimately be returned
-on both success and failure, the calling program should set
-.I errno
-to 0 before the call,
-and then determine if an error occurred by checking whether
-.I errno
-has a nonzero value after the call.
-.PP
+.SH VERSIONS
In the glibc implementation, the
.I n-char-sequence
that optionally follows "NAN"
@@ -185,6 +171,26 @@ mantissa component of the returned value.
.\" something similar.
.\" C11 says: "An implementation may use the n-char sequence to determine
.\" extra information to be represented in the NaN's significant."
+.SH STANDARDS
+C11, POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
+.BR strtod ()
+C89, POSIX.1-2001.
+.TP
+.BR strtof ()
+.TQ
+.BR strtold ()
+C99, POSIX.1-2001.
+.SH NOTES
+Since
+0 can legitimately be returned
+on both success and failure, the calling program should set
+.I errno
+to 0 before the call,
+and then determine if an error occurred by checking whether
+.I errno
+has a nonzero value after the call.
.SH EXAMPLES
See the example on the
.BR strtol (3)