From 7b388593964a51f55391c076d9b817efe4f87f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Gold Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:12:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention a couple of restrictions of c_strtod. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/c-strtod.texi | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 630048bc7f..8ebd4aabfa 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-01-20 Michael Gold (tiny change) + + * doc/c-strtod.texi: Mention a couple of restrictions. + 2009-01-20 Jim Meyering gettimeofday: move more declarations out of functions diff --git a/doc/c-strtod.texi b/doc/c-strtod.texi index a2082e7dc3..486b6e0b69 100644 --- 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 @@ extern double c_strtod (const char *string, char **endp); @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}. -- 2.30.2