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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi
index 5dddf6608..37923e1c7 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 @section @code{vsnprintf}
 @findex vsnprintf
 
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/vsnprintf.html}
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/vsnprintf.html}
 
 Gnulib module: vsnprintf or vsnprintf-posix
 
@@ -12,9 +12,17 @@ Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{vsnprintf} or @code{vsn
 This function is missing on some platforms:
 IRIX 5.3, OSF/1 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1.
 @item
+This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an
+arbitrary order, such as @code{"%2$s"}, on some platforms:
+NetBSD 3.0, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
+@item
 This function overwrites memory even when a size argument of 1 is passed on some
 platforms:
-Linux libc5.
+Linux libc5, BeOS.
+@item
+This function does not return a byte count as specified in C99 on some
+platforms:
+HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{vsnprintf-posix}:
@@ -22,30 +30,37 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{vsnprintf-posix}:
 @item
 This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (@code{hh}, @code{ll},
 @code{j}, @code{t}, @code{z}) on some platforms:
-AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, BeOS.
+AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @item
 printf of @samp{long double} numbers is unsupported on some platforms:
-mingw, BeOS.
+mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @item
 printf @code{"%f"}, @code{"%e"}, @code{"%g"} of Infinity and NaN yields an
 incorrect result on some platforms:
-AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw.
+AIX 5.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, mingw, MSVC 9.
+@item
+printf of @samp{long double} numbers outside the IEEE 754 range produces
+no meaningful results on some platforms:
+glibc and others, on x86, x86_64, IA-64 CPUs.
 @item
 This function does not support the @samp{a} and @samp{A} directives on some
 platforms:
-glibc-2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11,
-IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS.
+glibc-2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11,
+IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @item
 This function does not support the @samp{F} directive on some platforms:
 NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9,
-Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS.
+Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @item
-This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an
-arbitrary order, such as @code{"%2$s"}, on some platforms:
-NetBSD 3.0, mingw, BeOS.
+This function does not support the @samp{ls} directive on some platforms:
+OpenBSD 4.0, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, Cygwin 1.5.x, Haiku.
+@item
+This function does not support precisions in the @samp{ls} directive correctly
+on some platforms:
+Solaris 11 2011-11.
 @item
 This function doesn't support the @code{'} flag on some platforms:
-NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw.
+NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function behaves incorrectly when a @samp{-} flag and a negative width
 are specified together, on some platforms:
@@ -53,27 +68,25 @@ HP-UX 10.20.
 @item
 printf @code{"%010f"} of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded
 with zeroes) on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
+Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, AIX 5.2, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer,
 floating-point and pointer output on some platforms:
-mingw, BeOS.
+AIX 7.1, Solaris 10/x86, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
+@item
+This function mishandles large floating point precisions
+(for example, formatting 1.0 with @samp{"%.511f"})
+on some platforms:
+Solaris 10.
 @item
 This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0.
+Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0.
 @item
 This function does not truncate the result as specified in C99 on some platforms:
-mingw.
-@item
-This function does not return a byte count as specified in C99 on some platforms:
-HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, mingw.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function does not fully support the @samp{n} directive on some platforms:
-HP-UX 11, mingw.
-@item
-This function overwrites memory when a size = 1 argument is passed on some
-platforms:
-BeOS.
+HP-UX 11, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function overwrites memory even when a zero size argument is passed on some
 platforms:
@@ -82,4 +95,8 @@ HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1.
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
 @end itemize