LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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

diff --git a/original/man3/pow.3 b/original/man3/pow.3
index 8844b08..8e73965 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/pow.3
+++ b/original/man3/pow.3
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\" Modified 1995-08-14 by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
 .\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms
 .\"    (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
-.TH POW 3  2010-09-12 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH POW 3  2014-12-31 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 pow, powf, powl \- power functions
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -67,8 +67,11 @@ or
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR pow ()
-function returns the value of \fIx\fP raised to the
-power of \fIy\fP.
+function returns the value of
+.I x
+raised to the
+power of
+.IR y .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, these functions return the value of
 .I x
@@ -317,6 +320,19 @@ The variant returning
 also conforms to
 SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
 .SH BUGS
+On 64-bits,
+.\"
+.\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13932
+.BR pow ()
+may be more than 10,000 times slower for some (rare) inputs
+than for other nearby inputs.
+This affects only
+.BR pow (),
+and not
+.BR powf ()
+nor
+.BR powl ().
+
 In glibc 2.9 and earlier,
 .\"
 .\" http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776
@@ -363,3 +379,12 @@ in addition to the overflow or underflow exception.
 .BR cbrt (3),
 .BR cpow (3),
 .BR sqrt (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/.