strange behavior from SUN strtod()

Paul Burchard paul at arthur.uchicago.edu
Thu Jul 21 22:53:06 AEST 1988


In article <3d59d9c1.14de1 at simscript> magostin at procase.UUCP (Mike Agostino) writes:
>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.
  [...]
>
>mike agostino


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.


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