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-rw-r--r--manual/lang.texi10
-rw-r--r--manual/math.texi14
-rw-r--r--manual/time.texi12
-rw-r--r--manual/tunables.texi16
4 files changed, 45 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/manual/lang.texi b/manual/lang.texi
index 40cd9ddd77..cd90ff60d2 100644
--- a/manual/lang.texi
+++ b/manual/lang.texi
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ macros are supposed to be at least @code{10}.
 @standards{C90, float.h}
 This is the smallest possible exponent value for type @code{float}.
 More precisely, it is the minimum negative integer such that the value
-@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to this power minus 1 can be represented as a
+@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to one less than this power can be represented as a
 normalized floating point number of type @code{float}.
 
 @item DBL_MIN_EXP
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MIN_EXP}, but for the data types
 @item FLT_MIN_10_EXP
 @standards{C90, float.h}
 This is the minimum negative integer such that @code{10} raised to this
-power minus 1 can be represented as a normalized floating point number
+power can be represented as a normalized floating point number
 of type @code{float}.  This is supposed to be @code{-37} or even less.
 
 @item DBL_MIN_10_EXP
@@ -1091,8 +1091,8 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MIN_10_EXP}, but for the data types
 @standards{C90, float.h}
 This is the largest possible exponent value for type @code{float}.  More
 precisely, this is the maximum positive integer such that value
-@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to this power minus 1 can be represented as a
-floating point number of type @code{float}.
+@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to one less than this power can be represented as a
+finite floating point number of type @code{float}.
 
 @item DBL_MAX_EXP
 @itemx LDBL_MAX_EXP
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MAX_EXP}, but for the data types
 @item FLT_MAX_10_EXP
 @standards{C90, float.h}
 This is the maximum positive integer such that @code{10} raised to this
-power minus 1 can be represented as a normalized floating point number
+power can be represented as a finite floating point number
 of type @code{float}.  This is supposed to be at least @code{37}.
 
 @item DBL_MAX_10_EXP
diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi
index dfb685a71e..c99501ccb1 100644
--- a/manual/math.texi
+++ b/manual/math.texi
@@ -754,6 +754,20 @@ They are computed in a way that is accurate even if @var{x} is
 near zero.
 @end deftypefun
 
+@deftypefun double log2p1 (double @var{x})
+@deftypefunx float log2p1f (float @var{x})
+@deftypefunx {long double} log2p1l (long double @var{x})
+@deftypefunx _FloatN log2p1fN (_Float@var{N} @var{x})
+@deftypefunx _FloatNx log2p1fNx (_Float@var{N}x @var{x})
+@standards{TS 18661-4:2015, math.h}
+@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
+These functions return a value equivalent to @w{@code{log2 (1 + @var{x})}}.
+They are computed in a way that is accurate even if @var{x} is
+near zero.
+
+The @code{log2p1} functions are from TS 18661-4:2015.
+@end deftypefun
+
 @cindex complex exponentiation functions
 @cindex complex logarithm functions
 
diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index dd77d3db04..2d3833755f 100644
--- a/manual/time.texi
+++ b/manual/time.texi
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The number of clock ticks per second is system-specific.
 @code{time_t} is the simplest data type used to represent simple
 calendar time.
 
-In ISO C, @code{time_t} can be either an integer or a floating-point
+In ISO C, @code{time_t} can be either an integer or a real floating
 type, and the meaning of @code{time_t} values is not specified.  The
 only things a strictly conforming program can do with @code{time_t}
 values are: pass them to @code{difftime} to get the elapsed time
@@ -134,11 +134,21 @@ and pass them to the functions that convert them to broken-down time
 On POSIX-conformant systems, @code{time_t} is an integer type and its
 values represent the number of seconds elapsed since the @dfn{epoch},
 which is 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time.
+The count of seconds ignores leap seconds.
 
 @Theglibc{} additionally guarantees that @code{time_t} is a signed
 type, and that all of its functions operate correctly on negative
 @code{time_t} values, which are interpreted as times before the epoch.
+Functions like @code{localtime} assume the Gregorian calendar even
+though this is historically inaccurate for timestamps before the
+calendar was introduced or after the calendar will become obsolete.
 @cindex epoch
+@Theglibc{} also supports leap seconds as an option, in which case
+@code{time_t} counts leap seconds instead of ignoring them.
+Currently the @code{time_t} type is 64 bits wide on all platforms
+supported by @theglibc{}, except that it is 32 bits wide on a few
+older platforms unless you define @code{_TIME_BITS} to 64.
+@xref{Feature Test Macros}.
 @end deftp
 
 @deftp {Data Type} {struct timespec}
diff --git a/manual/tunables.texi b/manual/tunables.texi
index baaf751721..8dd02d8149 100644
--- a/manual/tunables.texi
+++ b/manual/tunables.texi
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ glibc.elision.skip_lock_busy: 3 (min: 0, max: 2147483647)
 glibc.malloc.top_pad: 0x20000 (min: 0x0, max: 0xffffffffffffffff)
 glibc.cpu.x86_rep_stosb_threshold: 0x800 (min: 0x1, max: 0xffffffffffffffff)
 glibc.cpu.x86_non_temporal_threshold: 0xc0000 (min: 0x4040, max: 0xfffffffffffffff)
+glibc.cpu.x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold: 0xc0000 (min: 0x4040, max: 0xfffffffffffffff)
 glibc.cpu.x86_shstk:
 glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size: 0x2800000 (min: 0x0, max: 0xffffffffffffffff)
 glibc.cpu.hwcap_mask: 0x6 (min: 0x0, max: 0xffffffffffffffff)
@@ -495,7 +496,8 @@ thread stack originally backup by Huge Pages to default pages.
 @cindex shared_cache_size tunables
 @cindex tunables, shared_cache_size
 @cindex non_temporal_threshold tunables
-@cindex tunables, non_temporal_threshold
+@cindex memset_non_temporal_threshold tunables
+@cindex tunables, non_temporal_threshold, memset_non_temporal_threshold
 
 @deftp {Tunable namespace} glibc.cpu
 Behavior of @theglibc{} can be tuned to assume specific hardware capabilities
@@ -574,6 +576,18 @@ like memmove and memcpy.
 This tunable is specific to i386 and x86-64.
 @end deftp
 
+@deftp Tunable glibc.cpu.x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold
+The @code{glibc.cpu.x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold} tunable allows
+the user to set threshold in bytes for non temporal store in
+memset. Non temporal stores give a hint to the hardware to move data
+directly to memory without displacing other data from the cache. This
+tunable is used by some platforms to determine when to use non
+temporal stores memset.
+
+This tunable is specific to i386 and x86-64.
+@end deftp
+
+
 @deftp Tunable glibc.cpu.x86_rep_movsb_threshold
 The @code{glibc.cpu.x86_rep_movsb_threshold} tunable allows the user to
 set threshold in bytes to start using "rep movsb".  The value must be