tags 435415 fixed-upstream thanks Fixed for upstream 2.65.
Thanks. Michael Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.62-1 > Severity: normal > > The copysign(3) man page says: > > The copysign() functions return a value whose absolute value matches > that of x, but whose sign matches that of y. If x is a NaN, then a NaN > with the sign of y is returned. > > But this is ambiguous if y is 0 or NaN. It should say: > > The copysign() functions return a value whose absolute value matches > that of x, but whose sign bit matches that of y. If x is a NaN, then a > NaN with the sign bit of y is returned. > > (The IEEE 754-1985 standard and Draft 1.4.0 of 754r are also ambiguous, > but I hope this will be fixed in the next draft.) > > This is important, because in lgamma(3), the "sign" has another meaning. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 2.62-1 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
