Bug #610
closed
strtof() and strtold() missing
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Description
While looking at issue I discovered that most of systems (NetBSD and FreeBSD
among others) are using gdtoa for floating point to string and string to
floating point conversions. Actually it's true for DF as well,
lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c is successor of the gdtoa.
Obvious solution would be to update to latest gdtoa code to get C99 conformant
floating point to string and string to floating point conversion. The fact
that FreeBSD and NetBSD are using it should simplify it at least a little.
Before someone mentions it - no, it's beyond my skills at the moment ;).
Updated by joerg over 17 years ago
gdtoa is a mess and for a lot of cases quite slow. I should also point
out that strtof and strtold usage is barely existing.
Joerg
Updated by hasso over 17 years ago
Seems that mostly because applications have their own fallback
implementations. I have seen several libraries/applications using
it unconditionally though. Yes, it's a bug in the application, but
it would be much better to have these in libc.
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Updated by Anonymous