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From: raulmill%aludra.usc.edu@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell)
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Subject: strtod
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Date: 20 Nov 89 01:45:11 GMT
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Standard C (P.J. Plauger & Jim Brodie, Microsoft Press 1989, p163):
        double strtod(const char *s, char **endptr);

GDB 3.4 (FSF 1989):
	(gdb) whatis strtod
	type = int ()
	(gdb) print strtod("0", 0)
	$2 = 81368

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There may be a problem with gcc as well, as I was running into a
problem with code using strtod until I added a line that said
extern double strtod();

As I am still debugging, and as I can't rely on gdb here to give me a
picture of what is going on, I don't really know if there is a gcc
bug.  [Incidentally, the extern declaration is present for the gdb
invocation which thought that strtod is an int type.]

Raul Rockwell
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