loop pointed out by cognet@ that occurs when calling strtod() with a
string representing a number between DBL_MAX and 2*DBL_MAX, when the
rounding mode is anything other than the default.
says they are never supposed to, and the fact that they did could
cause apps that run with unmasked FP exceptions to SIGFPE after a
scanf() or strtod(). The vendor stated that he will not be fixing
this, citing portability concerns.
