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> Hrm, considering Peter's recent post regarding gdtoa, can I count on
> this to continue to work even if gdtoa gets ripped out or isn't in
> use on a system (isn't gdtoa GPL-ware?  Why'd we even bother
> importing it anyway)?  How about the base system's old version of
> strtod, will it be fixed at some point for higher optimization
> levels?  -sc

Sorry for the follow up.  gdtoa isn't GPL-ware, my bad.  As Peter
pointed out, it's the initials of the author, not GNU.  And that said,
it looks like gdtoa is here to stay given that it's just the updated
version of our older strtod() routines.  I'll just use
__FreeBSD_version > 500112 as the method for detection.  -sc

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