On 03/18/2010 05:17 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
>> + res = strtod(arg->data, &end_p);
>
> Should we be using the gnulib strtod module here?
Why? It doesn't seem to be any better than C89 strtod. Or did I miss anything?
strtod is broken on a number of platforms in various ways; most of them
related to parsing the new formats required by C99, but there are some
other bugs even with C89 parsing as well:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi
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