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From: paul@arthur.uchicago.edu (Paul Burchard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strange behavior from SUN strtod()
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Date: 21 Jul 88 12:53:06 GMT
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In article <3d59d9c1.14de1@simscript> magostin@procase.UUCP (Mike Agostino) writes:
>I seemed to have discovered a bug in the SUN library function strtod().  Can anyone confirm
>this?  Here is a sample program:
  [deleted]
>The problem w/ the Sun strtod() lies in that the second parameter is not correctly 
>passed back.
  [...]
>
>mike agostino


Yes, I've had the same problem.  Ended up moving the pointer by hand (humph).
We're running Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.3; don't know about later versions.


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