Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:45:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
cc: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: strtod anomaly
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> [Forwarded to djgpp-workers, from DJGPP newsgroup]

Didn't see it there yet (the gateway had some problems lately, so it 
seems).

> In article <x7n24nmqsn DOT fsf AT manatee DOT dms DOT auburn DOT edu> you wrote:
> > strtod in 2.01 differs from that in Linux (gcc) and Solaris (Sun's cc)
> 
> This alone wouldn't mean much, of course, but unless I've read it
> completely incorrectly, the ANSI spec seems to agree that there's a
> problem, here.  An 'E' alone, without any digits to follow it, is not
> a valid exponent suffix, and thus strtod should leave it alone.

It is indeed a bug in v2.01.

`strtod' was extensively tested for v2.02, and many such subtle problems 
were corrected.  Please upgrade to v2.02, I think this bug is squashed 
there.