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diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index 55058f3d26..199c8a19a9 100644
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -308,10 +308,6 @@ and the next pointer is a pointer to
.I double
(rather than
.IR float ).
-Specifying two
-.B l
-characters is equivalent to
-.BR L .
If used with
.B %c
or
@@ -320,12 +316,33 @@ the corresponding parameter is considered
as a pointer to a wide character or wide-character string respectively.
.\" This use of l was introduced in Amendment 1 to ISO C90.
.TP
+.B ll
+(ell-ell)
+Indicates that the conversion will be one of
+.BR b ,
+.BR d ,
+.BR i ,
+.BR o ,
+.BR u ,
+.BR x ,
+.BR X ,
+or
+.B n
+and the next pointer is a pointer to a
+.I long long
+or
+.I unsigned long long
+(rather than
+.IR int ).
+.TP
.B L
Indicates that the conversion will be either
\fBe\fP, \fBf\fP, or \fBg\fP
and the next pointer is a pointer to
.I "long double"
-or the conversion will be
+or
+(as a GNU extension)
+the conversion will be
\fBd\fP, \fBi\fP, \fBo\fP, \fBu\fP, or \fBx\fP
and the next pointer is a pointer to
.IR "long long" .
@@ -683,17 +700,17 @@ floating-point conversion specifier (and is unaffected by
etc.).
.SH BUGS
All functions are fully C89 conformant, but provide the
-additional specifiers
+additional modifiers
.B q
and
.B a
as well as an additional behavior of the
.B L
and
-.B l
-specifiers.
+.B ll
+modifiers.
The latter may be considered to be a bug, as it changes the
-behavior of specifiers defined in C89.
+behavior of modifiers defined in C89.
.PP
Some combinations of the type modifiers and conversion
specifiers defined by ANSI C do not make sense