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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:09 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:09 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
.\"
.\" Based on glibc infopages
.\"
-.TH nextafter 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH nextafter 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
nextafter, nextafterf, nextafterl, nexttoward, nexttowardf, nexttowardl \-
floating-point number manipulation
@@ -17,21 +17,21 @@ Math library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <math.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "double nextafter(double " x ", double " y );
.BI "float nextafterf(float " x ", float " y );
.BI "long double nextafterl(long double " x ", long double " y );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "double nexttoward(double " x ", long double " y );
.BI "float nexttowardf(float " x ", long double " y );
.BI "long double nexttowardl(long double " x ", long double " y );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR nextafter ():
.nf
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.BR nextafterf (),
.BR nextafterl ():
.nf
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.BR nexttoward (),
.BR nexttowardf (),
.BR nexttowardl ():
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ is less than
.IR x ,
these functions will return the largest representable number less than
.IR x .
-.PP
+.P
If
.I x
equals
.IR y ,
the functions return
.IR y .
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR nexttoward (),
.BR nexttowardf (),
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ these functions return the next representable floating-point value after
.I x
in the direction of
.IR y .
-.PP
+.P
If
.I x
equals
@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@ then
(cast to the same type as
.IR x )
is returned.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I x
or
.I y
is a NaN,
a NaN is returned.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I x
is finite,
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ and the functions return
or
.BR HUGE_VALL ,
respectively, with the correct mathematical sign.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I x
is not equal to
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ See
.BR math_error (7)
for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred
when calling these functions.
-.PP
+.P
The following errors can occur:
.TP
Range error: result overflow
@@ -179,10 +179,9 @@ T{
.BR nexttowardl ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
-.PP
+.P
This function is defined in IEC 559 (and the appendix with
recommended functions in IEEE 754/IEEE 854).
.SH HISTORY
@@ -192,7 +191,7 @@ In glibc 2.5 and earlier, these functions do not raise an underflow
floating-point
.RB ( FE_UNDERFLOW )
exception when an underflow occurs.
-.PP
+.P
Before glibc 2.23
.\" https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6799
these functions did not set