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Subject: docs/6240: atof uses strtod, man page says it doesn't
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>Number:         6240
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       atof uses strtod, man page says it doesn't
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr  7 11:40:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Niall Smart
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

>Description:

In the BUGS section of atof(3) it is stated that atof is not
currently implemented using strtod(3), this is incorrect as a quick
glance at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/atof.c will show.

>How-To-Repeat:

man atof

>Fix:

*** atof.3~	Tue Apr  7 14:45:30 1998
--- atof.3	Tue Apr  7 14:44:19 1998
***************
*** 71,87 ****
  .Fn atof
  function conforms to
  .St -ansiC .
- .Sh BUGS
- This manual page represents intent instead of actual practice.
- While it is intended that
- .Fn atof
- be implemented using
- .Xr strtod 3 ,
- this has not yet happened.
- In the current system,
- .Fn atof
- translates a string in the following form to a double: a string of
- leading white space, possibly followed by a sign (``+'' or ``-''),
- followed by a digit string which may contain one decimal point (``.''),
- which may be followed by either of the exponent flags (``E'' or ``e''),
- and lastly, followed by a signed or unsigned integer.
--- 71,73 ----
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