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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bug in strtod in SunOS 3.2
Message-ID: <60922@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 Jul 88 23:20:10 GMT
References: <936@srs.UUCP>
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In article <936@srs.UUCP>, dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:
> Sun's strtod is supposed to pass a pointer to the first char after the float
> that was parsed, but it seems to think that the terminating null char is
> part of the float.

So do lots of other people's; our "strtod" is the System V Release 2.0 one,
changed only so that it properly decides which machines are IEEE ones.

> Is this 'fixed in 4.0'?

Yes.  Our version is fixed in 4.0; AT&T's is fixed in S5R3, I think, or perhaps
earlier (although the versions now share no common code).