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y0.3: These functions now correctly diagnose a pole error 

The fix was in glibc 2.19. See
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -187,15 +187,11 @@ Pole error: \fIx\fP is 0.0
.\" as a range error.
.I errno
is set to
.\" FIXME . y0(0.0) gives EDOM
.BR ERANGE
(but see BUGS).
No
and an
.B FE_DIVBYZERO
exception is returned by
.BR fetestexcept (3)
for this case.
.\" Bug raised: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6808
exception is raised
(but see BUGS).
.TP
Range error: result underflow
.\" e.g., y0(1e33) on glibc 2.8/x86-32
@ -253,15 +249,17 @@ conform to SVr4, 4.3BSD,
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
The others are nonstandard functions that also exist on the BSDs.
.SH BUGS
On a pole error, these functions set
Before glibc 2.19,
.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807
these functions misdiagnosed pole errors:
.I errno
to
was set to
.BR EDOM ,
instead of
.BR ERANGE
as POSIX.1-2004 requires.
.\" FIXME .
.\" Bug raised: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807
and no
.B FE_DIVBYZERO
exception was raised.
.PP
In glibc version 2.3.2 and earlier,
.\" FIXME . Actually, 2.3.2 is the earliest test result I have; so yet