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Mention a couple of restrictions of c_strtod.
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Michael Gold
<mgold@ncf.ca>
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:12:32 +0000
(23:12 +0100)
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Bruno Haible
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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:13:14 +0000
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+2009-01-20 Michael Gold <mgold@ncf.ca> (tiny change)
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+ * doc/c-strtod.texi: Mention a couple of restrictions.
+
2009-01-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
gettimeofday: move more declarations out of functions
2009-01-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
gettimeofday: move more declarations out of functions
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@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'.
@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
@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
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extern double c_strtod (const char *string, char **endp);
@end smallexample
In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even
@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}.