.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:40:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified Fri Jun 25 12:10:47 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\"
-.TH ECVT 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ECVT 3 2008-08-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ecvt, fcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr2;
marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001.
-.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revision removes ecvt() and fcvt().
+POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
+.BR ecvt ()
+and
+.BR fcvt ().
.SH NOTES
These functions are obsolete.
Instead,