------- Comment #25 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2007-05-12 01:51 ------- (In reply to comment #24) > It's defined.
Ok, thanks. > The 11.11 man page indicates that single-byte character code sets > are supported. It also states that this function is "to be obsoleted > at a future date." Well, that seems weird, to say the least, because strtold is new in C99! Probably, the problem here is that in this libc a version of strtold pre-dates the C99 standard (therefore in those docs, definitely before the final C99 standard, was even expected to not last much!) and, as such, doesn't implement the actual C99 semantics, which would mean returning __builtin_huge_vall() in case of overflow (C99, 7.20.1.3/10) and everything would perfectly work. Certainly, we can fix this issue, one way or another, we could even add a AC_TRY_RUN configure test, exercising the function in this conditions. I'll give the issue more thought, feel free to suggest something, of course... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31836
