strtod() problem - bug in library?

John F Haugh II jfh at greenber.austin.ibm.com
Wed Apr 24 09:13:57 AEST 1991


In article <5!mgj6f at rpi.edu> fitz at mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
>The AIX strtod() man page says that the decimal point is
>optional.

Yes, it is.  And single digits (your "1", for example) work
just fine.  The problem only occurs with a single "0" digit.

>Is my strtod function broken, is my code wrong, or am I
>trying to do something non-portable or undefined?

I've located the bug and requested that it be APAR'd.  Thanks
for sending in the bug report.
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