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From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@sourceware.org> To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] manual: significand() uses FLT_RADIX, not 2 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:29:42 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <20240403122942.8A3AF3846401@sourceware.org> (raw) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=95c70fd0d467450e75354316453824693f07c3cc commit 95c70fd0d467450e75354316453824693f07c3cc Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Date: Sun Mar 31 22:38:52 2024 +0200 manual: significand() uses FLT_RADIX, not 2 It's implemented using scalb(), which uses FLT_RADIX, AFAIK. Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZeYKUOKYS7G90SaV@debian/T/#mf21ab57e16b92eb6be6c7df79dc0eb43d4454056> Reported-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> Diff: --- manual/arith.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 0742c08ac4..034d9d2ba5 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ The @code{scalb} function is the BSD name for @code{ldexp}. @standards{BSD, math.h} @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} @code{significand} returns the mantissa of @var{x} scaled to the range -@math{[1, 2)}. +@math{[1, @code{FLT_RADIX})}. It is equivalent to @w{@code{scalb (@var{x}, (double) -ilogb (@var{x}))}}. This function exists mainly for use in certain standardized tests
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