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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/c-strtod.texi b/gnulib/doc/c-strtod.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3210d1a --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/c-strtod.texi @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'. + +@c Copyright (C) 2008-2011 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 1.3 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-strtod} module contains a string to number (@samp{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 double c_strtod (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{,}, +and no characters outside the basic character set are accepted. + +On platforms without @code{strtod_l}, this function is not safe for use in +multi-threaded applications since it calls @code{setlocale}. |