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From: jmc@teqsoft.UUCP (Jack Cloninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: atof() in SCO UNIX DEV
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Date: 14 Oct 90 16:49:12 GMT
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rvdp@cs.vu.nl (=Ronald van der Pol) writes:

>tb@pemstgt.gtc.de (Tillmann Basien) writes:

>| 	I have SCO UNIX Version 3.2.0 with Development Kit.
>| 	The atof()-function does not work proberly. Is there a work-a-round
>| 	of this problem?
>|
>	SCO UNIX has an ANSI C compiler. ANSI C's atof() is decared
>	in "stdlib.h".

IMHO the problem here is documentation.  The SCU Unix System V/386
Development System Programmer's Reference manual manual page for ATOF(S)
gives the following syntax description:

     #include <math.h>
     double atof(nptr)
     char *nptr;

The entry for "atoi" and "atol" give the correct include file, which
is as Mr. van der Pol states, "stdlib.h."  Mr. Basien did everything
correctly according to the manual, but was simply bitten by a
documentation error.
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