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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi b/doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi
index 21e418118..06fdfd224 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-NetBSD 3.0, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw.
+NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 glibc and Cygwin have an incompatible version of this function.  The
 POSIX compliant code
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The third argument is of type @code{int} instead of @code{size_t} on some
 platforms:
 AIX 5.1, OSF/1 5.1.
 @item
-When this function fails, it returns -1 and sets @code{errno}, instead of
+When this function fails, it returns @minus{}1 and sets @code{errno}, instead of
 returning the error number, on some platforms:
 glibc 2.12 with @code{-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L}, AIX 6.1, OSF/1 5.1.
 @item
@@ -45,21 +45,32 @@ OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, NonStop Kernel, Cygwin 1.5.x.
 @item
 This function reports failure for @code{strerror_r(0, buf, len)},
 although POSIX requires this to succeed, on some platforms:
-FreeBSD 8.2
+FreeBSD 8.2.
+@item
+This function produces a different string for @code{0} than
+@code{strerror} on some platforms:
+Mac OS X 10.5.
 @item
 This function always fails when the third argument is less than 80 on some
 platforms:
 HP-UX 11.31.
 @item
-When the buffer is too small, this function does not fail, but instead
-truncates the result and returns 0 on some platforms:
-OSF/1 5.1.
+When the buffer is too small and the value is in range, this function
+does not fail, but instead truncates the result and returns 0 on some
+platforms:
+AIX 6.1, OSF/1 5.1.
+@item
+When the value is not in range or the buffer is too small, this
+function fails to leave a NUL-terminated string in the buffer on some
+platforms:
+glibc 2.13, FreeBSD 8.2, Solaris 10.
+@item
+When the value is out of range but the buffer is too small, this
+function does not always return the longest possible string on some
+platforms:
+OpenBSD 4.7.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
-@item
-When the buffer is too small, this function does not fail, but instead
-truncates the result and returns 0 on some platforms:
-AIX 6.1.
 @end itemize