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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2008-08-02 16:30:28 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2008-08-02 16:30:28 +0000
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* 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.
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@@ -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.