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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:37:53 +0100 (BST)
From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c
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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).

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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