Re: AI 2000-05-034: wording for strtod()

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Drepper said:
> The AI was actually to provide some extra words for the new strtod()
> man page warning about the possible problems the adoption of ISO C99
> brings.
[...]

Yes, this is a Quiet Change between C90 and C99.

> The problem is the addition of floating-point numbers in hexadecimal
> notation without requiring that either a decimal point or the binary
> exponent must be present.

To require one or the other would have been a very nasty wart (since
strtod() *does* accept integers without decimal points).

In fact, it is worth adding to your text that:

        what_kind_of_number ("1234")

will produce:

        It's a float with value 1234

on both C90 and C99 systems.

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