.\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms
.\" <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>.
.\"
-.TH QECVT 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH QECVT 3 2014-08-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
qecvt, qfcvt, qgcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR qgcvt ():
_SVID_SOURCE
.ad b
+.\" FIXME . The full FTM picture looks to have be something like the
+.\" following mess:
+.\" glibc 2.20 onward
+.\" _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+.\" glibc 2.18 to glibc 2.19
+.\" _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
+.\" glibc 2.10 to glibc 2.17
+.\" _SVID_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
+.\" (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) &&
+.\" ! (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700))
+.\" Before glibc 2.10:
+.\" _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
+.\" (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED)
.SH DESCRIPTION
The functions
.BR qecvt (),
-.BR qfcvt ()
+.BR qfcvt (),
and
.BR qgcvt ()
are identical to
.BR ecvt (3),
-.BR fcvt (3)
+.BR fcvt (3),
and
.BR gcvt (3)
respectively, except that they use a
.BR ecvt (3)
and
.BR gcvt (3).
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR qecvt ()
+and
+.BR qfcvt ()
+functions are not thread-safe.
+.LP
+The
+.BR qgcvt ()
+function is thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO
SVr4.
Not seen in most common UNIX implementations,
but occurs in SunOS.
-Not supported by libc4 and libc5.
+.\" Not supported by libc4 and libc5.
Supported by glibc.
.SH NOTES
These functions are obsolete.
Instead,
-.BR sprintf (3)
+.BR snprintf (3)
is recommended.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ecvt (3),
.BR ecvt_r (3),
.BR gcvt (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/.
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