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Re: gawk: Locale-dependant bug with string to floating point conversion
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: gawk: Locale-dependant bug with string to floating point conversion |
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Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:16:33 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:
> The correct fix will be to de-hardcode the '.' in the replacement strtod().
That's part of the fix, but won't it be a little trickier than that?
For example, the current POSIX spec requires awk to support
hexadecimal floating-point constants like "0xep0", regardless of
whether these constants are in the program or in the input data.