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diff --git a/man3/gcvt.3 b/man3/gcvt.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7d7c7aa2c --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/gcvt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:32:25 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH GCVT 3 1993-03-29 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +gcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdlib.h> +.sp +.BI "char *gcvt(double " number ", size_t " ndigit ", char *" buf ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBgcvt()\fP function converts \fInumber\fP to a minimal length NULL +terminated ASCII string and stores the result in \fIbuf\fP. It produces +\fIndigit\fP significant digits in either +.BR printf (3) +F format or E format. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +The \fBgcvt()\fP function returns the address of the string pointed to +by \fIbuf\fP. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR ecvt (3), +.BR fcvt (3), +.BR sprintf (3) |