Re: hexadecimal input to strtod

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Kenneth MacKenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> It appears that since ISO C99 the C library function strtod is
> supposed to accept hexadecimal input:  see
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_414.html

> However,  the version which I'm using doesnt seem to handle this properly:

> $ gcc --version
> egcs-2.91.66

> $ ls -l /lib/libc-*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      4107583 Feb 16 11:15 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so*

Version mismatch between the documentation you're referring to and the
library you're testing.  And in fact, there is no mention whatsoever of
hexadecimal parsing in the docs of glibc-2.1 I have here, stating:

   This is Edition 0.08 DRAFT, last updated 11 Jan 1999, of `The GNU C
Library Reference Manual', for Version 2.1 Beta of the GNU C Library.


Your code snipped also does not test at all for success of strtod.
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