LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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diff --git a/original/man3/nextafter.3 b/original/man3/nextafter.3
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--- a/original/man3/nextafter.3
+++ b/original/man3/nextafter.3
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 .\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
 .\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
 .\"     <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE)
 .\" Distributed under GPL
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
 .\" Based on glibc infopages
-.TH NEXTAFTER 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\"
+.TH NEXTAFTER 3 2013-09-02 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 nextafter, nextafterf, nextafterl, nexttoward, nexttowardf, nexttowardl \-
 floating-point number manipulation
@@ -64,7 +69,10 @@ or
 .ad b
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
-.BR nextafter ()
+.BR nextafter (),
+.BR nextafterf (),
+and
+.BR nextafterl ()
 functions return the next representable floating-point value following
 .I x
 in the direction of
@@ -76,11 +84,19 @@ is less than
 these functions will return the largest representable number less than
 .IR x .
 
-If \fIx\fP equals \fIy\fP, the functions return \fIy\fP.
+If
+.I x
+equals
+.IR y ,
+the functions return
+.IR y .
 
 The
-.BR nexttoward ()
-functions do the same as the
+.BR nexttoward (),
+.BR nexttowardf (),
+and
+.BR nexttowardl ()
+functions do the same as the corresponding
 .BR nextafter ()
 functions, except that they have a
 .I "long double"
@@ -160,7 +176,18 @@ These functions do not set
 .IR errno .
 .\" FIXME . Is it intentional that these functions do not set errno?
 .\" Bug raised: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6799
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR nextafter (),
+.BR nextafterf (),
+.BR nextafterl (),
+.BR nexttoward (),
+.BR nexttowardf (),
+and
+.BR nexttowardl ()
+functions are thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 C99, POSIX.1-2001.
 This function is defined in IEC 559 (and the appendix with
 recommended functions in IEEE 754/IEEE 854).
@@ -169,5 +196,14 @@ In glibc version 2.5 and earlier, these functions do not raise an underflow
 floating-point
 .RB ( FE_UNDERFLOW )
 exception when an underflow occurs.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR nearbyint (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/.