Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:15:44 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:03:36 +0100 (CET)
>  
>  This function converts as many characters of @var{s} as look like a
> -floating point number into that number.  If @var{endp} is not a null
> +floating point number into that number.  It also recognises
> +(case-insensitivly) @code{Inf}, @code{Infinity}, @code{NaN} and
> +@code{NaN(<optional integer>)}.  If @var{endp} is not a null

The "<optional integer>" part should be "@var{optional integer}",
since it stands for something else, i.e. it's a meta-syntactic
variable.

> +If @var{s} is @code{Inf} or @code{Infinity}, with any variations of

I think that it's better to use ``Inf'', ``Infinity'', ``NaN'',
etc. when you mean literal strings, since they are not symbols in this
context.  @code{Inf} is for when you talk about an infinite value.

> +If @var{s} is @code{NaN(<integer>)}, with any variations of

"<integer>" should be "@var{integer}".

Btw, do we really intend to support non-hex values here?

> +@code{<integer>&0xfffffffffffff} is 0 (which is won't work as a

There's a typo here: "is won't work".