Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-04-24 22:13:11 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Vincent, On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: The isgreater(3) man page says:  The  normal  relation operations

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-05-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-05 23:53:08 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: So, how about the following replacement text: [[ The macros are guaranteed to evaluate their arguments only once. The arguments must be of real floating-point type (note: do not pass integer values as arguments to these

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 609033 fixed-upstream thanks Vincent, I've made this change for upstream 3.41. Thanks, Michael On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-05-05 23:53:08 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: So, how about the following replacement text: [[

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Vincent, On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: wishlist The isgreater(3) man page says:  The  normal  relation operations (like , less than) will fail if one  of the operands is NaN.  This will cause an

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-04-24 22:13:11 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Vincent, On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: The isgreater(3) man page says:  The  normal  relation operations (like , less than) will fail if one  of the operands is NaN.  This will

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: wishlist The isgreater(3) man page says: The normal relation operations (like , less than) will fail if one of the operands is NaN. This will cause an exception. To avoid this, C99 defines these macros. The macros are guaranteed to