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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:39:52 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strtod()
Message-ID:  <20020124213951.GB87013@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020124135250.A454@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
References:  <20020124135250.A454@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 13:52:50 -0700, Chad David wrote:
> 
> SUSv2 states that if no conversion can be performed 0.0 is returned, and
> error MAY be set to EINVAL; 

POSIX says it too. IMHO it is proper variant to _set_ it to distinguish
pure 0.0 with 0.0 as result of wrong conversion. Our other strto*() 
functions in the -current already do so.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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