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.\" Modified Fri Jun 25 12:10:47 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
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-.TH ECVT 3 2013-07-04 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ECVT 3 2014-08-19 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ecvt, fcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR snprintf (3)
may be preferable).
.SH NOTES
-Linux libc4 and libc5 specified the type of
-.I ndigits
-as
-.IR size_t .
+.\" Linux libc4 and libc5 specified the type of
+.\" .I ndigits
+.\" as
+.\" .IR size_t .
Not all locales use a point as the radix character ("decimal point").
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ecvt_r (3),
.BR qecvt (3),
.BR setlocale (3),
.BR sprintf (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.