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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
+.\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
+.\"     <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2002-07-25 by Walter Harms
 .\" 	(walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
 .\"
-.TH ASIN 3 2002-07-25 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ASIN 3 2008-07-29 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 asin, asinf, asinl \- arc sine function
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -43,32 +45,66 @@ asin, asinf, asinl \- arc sine function
 .fi
 .sp
 Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
+.sp
+.in -4n
+Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
+.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
+.in
+.sp
+.ad l
+.BR asinf (),
+.BR asinl ():
+_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or
+.I cc\ -std=c99
+.ad b
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR asin ()
-function calculates the arc sine of \fIx\fP; that is
-the value whose sine is \fIx\fP.
-If \fIx\fP falls outside the range
-\-1 to 1,
-.BR asin ()
-fails and \fIerrno\fP is set.
+function calculates the principal value of the arc sine of \fIx\fP;
+that is the value whose sine is \fIx\fP.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-The
-.BR asin ()
-function returns the arc sine in radians and the
-value is mathematically defined to be between \-PI/2 and PI/2
-(inclusive).
+On success, these functions return the principal value of the arc sine of
+.IR x
+in radians; the return value is in the range [\-pi/2,\ pi/2].
+
+If
+.I x
+is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
+
+If
+.I x
+is +0 (\-0),
++0 (\-0) is returned.
+
+If
+.I x
+outside the range [\-1,\ 1],
+a "domain error" occurs,
+and a NaN is returned.
+.\"
+.\" POSIX.1-2001 documents an optional range error for subnormal x;
+.\" glibc 2.8 does not do this.
 .SH ERRORS
+See
+.BR math_error (7)
+for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred
+when calling these functions.
+.PP
+The following errors can occur:
 .TP
-.B EDOM
-\fIx\fP is out of range.
+Domain error: \fIx\fP is outside the range [\-1,\ 1]
+.I errno
+is set to
+.BR EDOM .
+An invalid floating-point exception
+.RB ( FE_INVALID )
+is raised.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
-The
-.I float
-and
-.I "long double"
-variants are C99 requirements.
+C99, POSIX.1-2001.
+The variant returning
+.I double
+also conforms to
+SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR acos (3),
 .BR atan (3),