From 48b22986ccb7751b8474189ac1b610265b242c30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 16:30:28 +0000 Subject: * manual/arith.texi: Avoid @strong{Note:}. * manual/creature.texi: Likewise. * manual/filesys.texi: Likewise. * manual/math.texi: Likewise. * manual/memory.texi: Likewise. * manual/resource.texi: Likewise. * manual/syslog.texi: Likewise. * manual/time.texi: Likewise. --- manual/arith.texi | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'manual/arith.texi') diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 078885e86f..b1580a06f5 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ This function returns @code{-1} if @var{x} represents negative infinity, This function returns a nonzero value if @var{x} is a ``not a number'' value, and zero otherwise. -@strong{Note:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides +@strong{NB:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides the BSD function. This is normally not a problem, because the two routines behave identically. However, if you really need to get the BSD function for some reason, you can write @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ decide whether traps will occur for each of the exceptions, by setting bits in the @dfn{control word}. In C, traps result in the program receiving the @code{SIGFPE} signal; see @ref{Signal Handling}. -@strong{Note:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of +@strong{NB:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of the exceptional situation, and can set the result value. C signals do not provide any mechanism to pass this information back and forth. Trapping exceptions in C is therefore not very useful. @@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ Not all machines provide hardware support for these operations. On machines that don't, the macros can be very slow. Therefore, you should not use these functions when NaN is not a concern. -@strong{Note:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}. +@strong{NB:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}. They are unnecessary, because the @code{==} and @code{!=} operators do @emph{not} throw an exception if one or both of the operands are NaN. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2