Note our implementation is not thread nor async-cancel safe.
Explicitely note atof() does not check nor report errors.
Note that strtod() should be used instead.
Also add C99 conformity status plus clarification that C99 leaves the
flushing of unwritten data, closure of open streams, and removal of
temporary files to the implementation.
This is a first cut, but enough to help people interested in using it
further than before.
More text coming to illustrate use and provide more details.
Based on standards' text.
my last version of this work due to HDD crash, but this version cleanly
passed all POSIX and SuSv2 tests. I am working on testing scripts which
should test this implementation against all locales and surely more fixes
will come soon.
Reviewed by: ache, silence at -audit & -developers
'locale not used' statement from comments and BUGS section of manpage.
strtol(): fix non-portable 'cutoff' calculation using the same method as
in strtoll().
Cleanup 'cutoff' calculation, remove unneded casts. Misc. cleanup to
make all functions looks the same.
Implement EINVAL reaction per POSIX, document it in manpage, corresponding
POSIX example quotes here:
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If the subject sequence is empty or does not have the expected form, no
conversion is performed; the value of str is stored in the object pointed
to by endptr, provided that endptr is not a null pointer.
If no conversion could be performed, 0 shall be returned and errno may be
set to [EINVAL].
[EINVAL] The value of base is not supported.
Since 0, {LONG_MIN} or {LLONG_MIN}, and {LONG_MAX} or {LLONG_MAX} are
returned on error and are also valid returns on success, an application
wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0, then call
strtol( ) or strtoll ( ), then check errno.
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Backout previous revision. We should not expand plain text xrefs if
they appear in the literal text, e.g. in the error or warning message
of the library function. (Submitted by: bde)
Moved "out of memory" from warning to errors section.
Even better formula from random() could not be intetgrated because rand_r()
supposed to store its state in the single variable (but table needed for
random() algorithm integration).
Change __dtoa to not free the string it allocated the previous time it was
called. The caller now frees the string after usage if appropiate.
PR: 15070
Reviewed by: deischen
