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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:24:24 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?
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>> 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