diff --git a/man3/acos.3 b/man3/acos.3 index 4c4f029f5..a2a8ebaac 100644 --- a/man3/acos.3 +++ b/man3/acos.3 @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk +.\" .\" .\" 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 ACOS 3 2004-10-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH ACOS 3 2008-07-29 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME acos, acosf, acosl \- arc cosine function .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -41,31 +43,69 @@ acos, acosf, acosl \- arc cosine 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 acosf (), +.BR acosl (): +_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or +.I cc\ -std=c99 +.ad b .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR acos () function calculates the arc cosine of \fIx\fP; that is the value whose cosine is \fIx\fP. -If \fIx\fP falls outside the range -\-1 to 1, -.BR acos () -fails and \fIerrno\fP is set. .SH "RETURN VALUE" -The -.BR acos () -function returns the arc cosine in radians and the -value is mathematically defined to be between 0 and PI (inclusive). +On success, these functions return the arc cosine of +.IR x +in radians; the return value is in the range [0,\ pi]. + +If +.I x +is a NaN, a NaN is returned. + +If +.I x +is +1, ++0 is returned. + +If +.I x +is positive infinity or negative infinity, +a "domain error" occurs, +and a NaN is returned. + +If +.I x +is outside the range [\-1,\ 1], +a "domain error" occurs, +and a NaN is returned. .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 asin (3), .BR atan (3),