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 wrote: > On 2012-05-05 23:53:08 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> So, how about the following replacement text: >> >> [[ >> The macros

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)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Vincent Lefevre 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 wrote: >> > The isgreater(3) man page says: >> > >> >  The  normal  relation operations (like <, "less than"

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 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 cause

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 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 exception.

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 e