Re*2: an elementary question concerning double indirection

[Steve Mawer]

In article <1990Feb27.110204.1415 at uwasa.fi> fs at uwasa.fi (Filip Sawicki LAKE) writes:
>
>According to the SUN manual, strtod returns ptr==string if string is 
>completely inconvertible, otherwise ptr points to the first wrong character.

Beware!  I used strtol() on 2.2.1 RT AIX and found that the returned pointer
from the string "\n\0" pointed to the *null*, not the newline.  The code
affected had been ported to a number of environments and AIX was the only
one thus afflicted.

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