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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:24:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <da94987b819d6f645b7304683985b0cc@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0901102307g6c9a4febpea45d22a25eeeda1@mail.gmail.com>

>> is there some reason that the regular strtod is unsuitable for
>> ape?
>
> for one thing, the regular (= plan 9 libc) strtod doesn't set errno.

i didn't say exactly what i ment.  would adding
errno setting and potentially altering return values
(i'm not clear if this is necessary) be sufficient
to use the libc strtod with ape?

- erik




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-11  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10 21:45 erik quanstrom
2009-01-11  7:07 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-11  7:24   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-01-11  9:30 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-10  5:57 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-10  6:26 ` lucio
2009-01-10  6:39   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-10 16:19   ` John Stalker
2009-01-10 19:43     ` erik quanstrom

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