(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

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diff --git a/original/man3/frexp.3 b/original/man3/frexp.3
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--- a/original/man3/frexp.3
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" References consulted:
 .\"     Linux libc source code
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
 .\"    (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
 .\"
-.TH FREXP 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FREXP 3 2013-08-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 frexp, frexpf, frexpl \- convert floating-point number to fractional
 and integral components
@@ -64,19 +66,29 @@ or
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR frexp ()
-function is used to split the number \fIx\fP into a
-normalized fraction and an exponent which is stored in \fIexp\fP.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+function is used to split the number
+.I x
+into a
+normalized fraction and an exponent which is stored in
+.IR exp .
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR frexp ()
 function returns the normalized fraction.
-If the argument \fIx\fP is not zero,
-the normalized fraction is \fIx\fP times a power of two,
+If the argument
+.I x
+is not zero,
+the normalized fraction is
+.I x
+times a power of two,
 and its absolute value is always in the range 1/2 (inclusive) to
 1 (exclusive), that is, [0.5,1).
 
-If \fIx\fP is zero, then the normalized fraction is
-zero and zero is stored in \fIexp\fP.
+If
+.I x
+is zero, then the normalized fraction is
+zero and zero is stored in
+.IR exp .
 
 If
 .I x
@@ -93,7 +105,15 @@ positive infinity (negative infinity) is returned, and the value of
 is unspecified.
 .SH ERRORS
 No errors occur.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR frexp (),
+.BR frexpf (),
+and
+.BR frexpl ()
+functions are thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 C99, POSIX.1-2001.
 The variant returning
 .I double
@@ -107,7 +127,7 @@ The program below produces results such as the following:
 .RB "$" " ./a.out 2560"
 frexp(2560, &e) = 0.625: 0.625 * 2^12 = 2560
 .RB "$" " ./a.out \-4"
-frexp(\-4, &e) = \-0.5: \-0.5 * 2^3 = -4
+frexp(\-4, &e) = \-0.5: \-0.5 * 2^3 = \-4
 .in
 .fi
 .SS Program source
@@ -132,6 +152,14 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 .fi
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ldexp (3),
 .BR modf (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.