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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-03-31 06:22:49 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-03-31 06:22:49 -0600 |
| commit | 9553f74080a7fdad09e6f36e1cf55092b51bb31f (patch) | |
| tree | 45011d7287904bbeba5ee2fdb34d155afba0306d /doc | |
| parent | ce003b231f6c934025092afa7e5623f5fc36e1e6 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-9553f74080a7fdad09e6f36e1cf55092b51bb31f.tar.gz | |
More strtod documentation.
* doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi (strtod): Interpret more test
failures as distinct bugs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi | 27 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi b/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi index f1fdb43890..0a890a7510 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi @@ -19,26 +19,41 @@ Old versions of Linux. This function returns a wrong end pointer on some old platforms. @item -This function fails to do a valid parse of @samp{-0x} on some +This function consumes whitespace even when there is nothing that should +be parsed on some platforms: +IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1. + +@item +This function allows whitespace between @samp{e} and the exponent on +some platforms: +HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 4.0. + +@item +This function returns the wrong end pointer for @samp{-0x} on some platforms: glibc 2.4, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.2, Cygwin < 1.5.25-11. @item +This function returns +0.0 (not -0.0) for @samp{-0} on some platforms: +IRIX 6.5. + +@item This function fails to parse Infinities and plain NaNs on some platforms: OpenBSD 4.0, HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw. @item -This function fails to parse NaN() on some platforms: +This function fails to parse @samp{NaN()} on some platforms: glibc-2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.2, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris?, Cygwin < 1.5.25-11, mingw. @item -This function fails to parse NaN(n-char-sequence) on some platforms: +This function fails to parse @samp{NaN(@var{n-char-sequence})} on some +platforms: OpenBSD 4.0, HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris?, mingw. @item -This function returns the wrong end pointer when parsing -NaN(n-char-sequence) on some platforms: -glibc-2.4, OpenBSD 4.0, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris?, mingw. +This function parses @samp{NaN(@var{n-char-sequence})}, but returns +the wrong end pointer on some platforms: +glibc-2.4, AIX 5.1. @item This function fails to parse C99 hexadecimal floating point on some |