Adjust strtod detection to catch glibc 2.7 bug.

* m4/strtod.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRTOD): Test "nan()" behavior.
Reported by BuraphaLinux Server.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8f8a6f20bf9d493d2283abc17aca5fe09759c907..2f1d444a3584aafafbfddeb08dbaa4b3b304d556 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-04-16  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Adjust strtod detection to catch glibc 2.7 bug.
+       * m4/strtod.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRTOD): Test "nan()" behavior.
+       Reported by BuraphaLinux Server.
+
 2008-04-16  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        Add tentative support for Linux libc5.

diff --git a/m4/strtod.m4 b/m4/strtod.m4
index ba411a93ba9ab5def127356394a537e52523f765..5d526177b435946e23634f2d4530ebc662ffe38f 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/strtod.m4
+++ b/m4/strtod.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# strtod.m4 serial 8
+# strtod.m4 serial 9
 dnl Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software
 dnl Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_STRTOD],
       [AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <math.h>
+/* Compare two numbers with ==.
+   This is a separate function because IRIX 6.5 "cc -O" miscompiles an
+   'x == x' test.  */
+static int
+numeric_equal (double x, double y)
+{
+  return x == y;
+}
 ]], [[
   {
     /* Older glibc and Cygwin mis-parse "-0x".  */
@@ -45,6 +53,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_STRTOD],
     if (value != HUGE_VAL || term != (string + 3))
       return 1;
   }
+  {
+    /* glibc 2.7 and cygwin 1.5.24 misparse "nan()".  */
+    const char *string = "nan()";
+    char *term;
+    double value = strtod (string, &term);
+    if (numeric_equal (value, value) || term != (string + 5))
+      return 1;
+  }
 ]])],
        [gl_cv_func_strtod_works=yes],
        [gl_cv_func_strtod_works=no],