From 4a3dfbf40eba25a6d355db2ae5ac721f862a0557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:42:54 +0100 Subject: Add documentation for the c-* modules. --- doc/c-strtold.texi | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/c-strtold.texi (limited to 'doc/c-strtold.texi') diff --git a/doc/c-strtold.texi b/doc/c-strtold.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..70fd7c9c15 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/c-strtold.texi @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtold'. + +@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +The @code{c-strtold} module contains a string to number (@samp{long double}) +conversion function operating on single-byte character strings, that operates +as if the locale encoding was ASCII. +(The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".) + +The function is: +@smallexample +extern long double c_strtold (const char *string, char **endp); +@end smallexample + +In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even +when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}. -- cgit v1.2.1