18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
3:35 p.m.
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 -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org