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diff --git a/doc/c-strtod.texi b/doc/c-strtod.texi
index a2082e7dc..c6fc6faba 100644
--- a/doc/c-strtod.texi
+++ b/doc/c-strtod.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'.
 
-@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ extern double c_strtod (const char *string, char **endp);
 @end smallexample
 
 In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even
-when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}.
+when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,},
+and no characters outside the basic character set are accepted.
+
+On platforms without @code{strtod_l}, this function is not safe for use in
+multi-threaded applications since it calls @code{setlocale}.