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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-03-31 22:38:48 +0200
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2024-04-03 09:16:22 -0300
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manual: Clarify return value of cbrt(3)
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ZeYKUOKYS7G90SaV@debian/T/#mff0ab388000c6afdb5e5162804d4a0073de481de> Reported-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cowritten-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
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@@ -700,8 +700,12 @@ Mathematically, it should return a complex number.
@standardsx{cbrtfN, TS 18661-3:2015, math.h}
@standardsx{cbrtfNx, TS 18661-3:2015, math.h}
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
-These functions return the cube root of @var{x}. They cannot
-fail; every representable real value has a representable real cube root.
+These functions return the cube root of @var{x}.
+They cannot fail;
+every representable real value
+has a real cube root,
+and rounding it to a representable value
+never causes overflow nor underflow.
@end deftypefun
@deftypefun double hypot (double @var{x}, double @var{y})