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changeset 11061:e57a59a1c129
Mention a couple of restrictions of c_strtod.
| author | Michael Gold <mgold@ncf.ca> |
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| date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:12:32 +0100 |
| parents | 2c1c4815ae8f |
| children | 90ff3553a1d7 |
| files | ChangeLog doc/c-strtod.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-01-20 Michael Gold <mgold@ncf.ca> (tiny change) + + * doc/c-strtod.texi: Mention a couple of restrictions. + 2009-01-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> gettimeofday: move more declarations out of functions
--- a/doc/c-strtod.texi +++ b/doc/c-strtod.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'. -@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -20,4 +20,9 @@ @end smallexample In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even -when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}. +when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}, +and no characters outside the basic character set are accepted. + +This function aborts via @code{xalloc_die} if it cannot allocate memory. +On platforms without @code{strtod_l}, it is not safe for use in +multi-threaded applications since it calls @code{setlocale}.