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From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: strtod() problem - bug in library?
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.071505.16713@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
Summary: strtoul() too
Keywords: strtod() strtoul()
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 07:17:38 GMT

In article <5!mgj6f@rpi.edu> fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
|String-to-decimal conversion problem on AIX/370
|------ -- ------- ---------- ------- -- -------
|
|When a string equivalent to zero containing no decimal
|point is encountered, strtod() does not store a pointer to
|the unconverted suffix.  Instead, it stores the same
|pointer that was supplied, as though the conversion were
|unsuccessful.
|
	strtoul() also seems to be incorrect:
	if integer can not be formed, addr before string is returned in pointer
	and not string