Hi Jim, > Thanks for writing that. One nit: s/the a/a/
Yup, thanks. Committed with this fix, and a bit nicer formatting: 2009-01-24 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> * lib/c-strtod.h (c_strtod, c_strtold): Add specification. --- lib/c-strtod.h.orig 2009-01-24 11:42:56.000000000 +0100 +++ lib/c-strtod.h 2009-01-24 11:38:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,2 +1,37 @@ -double c_strtod (char const *, char **); -long double c_strtold (char const *, char **); +/* Convert string to double, using the C locale. + + Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ + +/* Parse the initial portion of the string pointed to by NPTR as a floating- + point number (in decimal or hexadecimal notation), like in the C locale: + accepting only the ASCII digits '0'..'9', and only '.' as decimal point + character. + If ENDPTR is not NULL, set *ENDPTR to point to the first byte beyond the + parsed number or to NPTR if the string does not start with a parseable + number. + Return value: + - If successful, return the value as a double or 'long double', + respectively, and don't modify errno. + - In case of overflow, return ±HUGE_VAL or ±HUGE_VALL, respectively, and + set errno to ERANGE. + - In case of underflow, return a value very near to 0 and set errno to + ERANGE. + - If the string does not start with a number at all, return 0 (and recall + that if ENDPTR != NULL, *ENDPTR is set to NPTR). + - In case of other error, return 0 and set errno, for example to EINVAL + or ENOMEM. */ +extern double c_strtod (char const *nptr, char **endptr); +extern long double c_strtold (char const *nptr, char **endptr);