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qecvt.3: Recommend snprintf(3) not sprintf(3) 

Reported-by: Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms
.\" <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>.
.\"
.TH QECVT 3 2013-07-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH QECVT 3 2014-03-11 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
qecvt, qfcvt, qgcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR qgcvt ():
_SVID_SOURCE
.ad b
.\" FIXME The full FTM picture looks to have be something like the
.\" following mess:
.\" glibc 2.20 onward
.\" _DEFAULT_SOURCE
.\" glibc 2.18 to glibc 2.19
.\" _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.\" glibc 2.10 to glibc 2.17
.\" _SVID_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
.\" (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) &&
.\" ! (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700))
.\" Before glibc 2.10:
.\" _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
.\" (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED)
.SH DESCRIPTION
The functions
.BR qecvt (),
@ -89,7 +102,7 @@ Supported by glibc.
.SH NOTES
These functions are obsolete.
Instead,
.BR sprintf (3)
.BR snprintf (3)
is recommended.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ecvt (3),