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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib atof.c atoi.c atol.3 atol.c
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:35:43 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >
> > > As I believe,
> > > initially, when ato*() was not implemented via strto*() but use their own
> > > way, there was no errno changes in them.
> >
> > Yes.  The V7 manual has atof() but not strtod(), and doesn't mention any
> > error numbers for atof().
>
>
> Well, while other reasons may be questionable, this one is enough to make
> this change stay.

No.  The 4.4BSD version has been running without problems for longer than
V7 on many more machines than were dreamt of in V7's day.

Bruce


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