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Re: glibc manual: html character entity incorrect
- From: ludo at gnu dot org (Ludovic CourtÃs)
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 17:16:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc manual: html character entity incorrect
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Steve Ward <planet36@gmail.com> skribis:
> On this page:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Exponents-and-Logarithms.html#Exponents-and-Logarithms
>
> In this section:
> Function: long double logbl (long double x)
>
> The infinity html character entity is incorrect.
> """
> If x is de-normalized, logb returns the exponent x would have if it
> were normalized. If x is infinity (positive or negative), logb returns
> ∞. If x is zero, logb returns ∞. It does not signal.
> """
>
> In the page source, I see "&infin;". It should be "∞".
The page above was produced by makeinfo 4.13. Version 5.0 doesnât seem
to have this problem.
Ludoâ.