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

[Ulrich Drepper <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>       what_kind_of_number ("1234")
> 
> will produce:
> 
>       It's a float with value 1234
> 
> on both C90 and C99 systems.

This is obvious.  But is obvious, everybody should know.  But I got
since I implemented the C99 behavior several dozend reports about this
change including from Perl users (Perl internally relied on 0x being
integer prefix).

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