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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: strtod()
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 23:53:58 -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 
> The problem is that 0.0 could be the right return value, but if errno was 
> EINVAL before calling strtod(), the caller makes a mistake in assuming 
> "retval == 0.0 && errno == EINVAL means failure".

The caller _must_ set errno = 0 before the call, if he plan to check it 
afterwards.

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