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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strange behavior from SUN strtod()
Message-ID: <60862@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 Jul 88 18:46:16 GMT
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> >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.

The answer is "yes, he's found a bug in the AT&T System V Release 2.0 library
function 'strtod()'" (the Sun one is just the S5R2 one, with one #ifdef changed
to correctly specify which machines are IEEE machines).  You'll find this bug
on machines other than Suns....

> 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.

AT&T's bug is fixed in S5R3, I think, or perhaps sooner.  Sun's bug is fixed in
4.0; the two implementations are now different.