(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.38.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / copysign.3

diff --git a/original/man3/copysign.3 b/original/man3/copysign.3
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--- a/original/man3/copysign.3
+++ b/original/man3/copysign.3
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified 2002-08-10 by Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
-.TH COPYSIGN 3  2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH COPYSIGN 3  2012-03-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 copysign, copysignf, copysignl \- copy sign of a number
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ The
 .BR copysign ()
 functions return a value whose absolute value matches
 that of \fIx\fP, but whose sign bit matches that of \fIy\fP.
+
+For example,
+.I "copysign(42.0,\ \-1.0)"
+and
+.I "copysign(\-42.0, \-1.0)"
+both return \-42.0.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, these functions return a value whose magnitude is taken from
 .I x