From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:07:45 -0800 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in awk? In-Reply-To: <1f008c20c3fcaf5ebcc59a63642a32fb@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1f008c20c3fcaf5ebcc59a63642a32fb@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7fafe87e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. russ