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diff --git a/doc/c-strtod.texi b/doc/c-strtod.texi
index f4f196f56..d6f1ad83f 100644
--- a/doc/c-strtod.texi
+++ b/doc/c-strtod.texi
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 @c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'.
 
-@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2008-2010 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 1.2 or
+@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
 @c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
 @c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
 @c Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
@@ -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}.