Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:37:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c Message-ID: <20011006173708.B530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20011006121653.D7732@locore.ca>
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:58:54AM -0700,
> Doug Rabson said words to the effect of;
>
> > dfr 2001/10/06 08:58:54 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c
> > Log:
> > Make this work on ia64. I have no idea why it works on alpha - it
> > shouldn't.
> >
> > Revision Changes Path
> > 1.9 +8 -2 src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c
>
> I assume that's why we have netbsd_strtod.c and a not so temporary
> hack in the stdlib Makefile.inc.
>
> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha"
> # XXX Temporary until the assumption that a long is 32-bits is resolved
> # XXX FreeBSD's code. NetBSD kludged this with Long = int32_t and
> # XXX ULong = u_int32_t
> SRCS+= netbsd_strtod.c
> .else
> SRCS+= strtod.c
> .endif
Oh yes, I remember that. Hehe. Perhaps we should always use
netbsd_strtod.c (or maybe get a fresh copy from NetBSD-current).
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