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fdim.3: BUGS: these functions did not set errno on some architectures 

The bug was fixed in glibc 2.24.
https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -61,17 +61,13 @@ when calling these functions.
The following errors can occur:
.TP
Range error: result overflow
.\" .I errno
.\" is set to
.\" .BR ERANGE .
.I errno
is set to
.BR ERANGE .
An overflow floating-point exception
.RB ( FE_OVERFLOW )
is raised.
.PP
These functions do not set
.IR errno .
.\" FIXME . Is it intentional that these functions do not set errno?
.\" Bug raised: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796
.SH VERSIONS
These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
@ -90,5 +86,11 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
.SH CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH BUGS
Before glibc version 2.24
.\" https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796
on certain architectures (e.g., x86, but not x86_64)
these functions did not set
.IR errno .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fmax (3)