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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: float.h, strtod(), signal 6, and my temper..
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Date: 17 Mar 93 01:14:50 GMT
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In article <5939@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, air+@pitt.edu (Alvin I Rosenthal) writes:
|> I'm getting frustrated.  I installed the newest "latest" 84 - 110 patches
|> and verified that the HUGE and DBL values in the headers were changed.  I
|> then installed the patch (00089) that added strtod() to atof.  It still
|> bombed with a signal 6.  I tried using gcc-2.3.3.  This time dumped core. 
|> I read a suggestion about disabling cache.  I disabled primary and secondary
|> cache.  Still a signal 6.  I really need a working strtod().  Any
|> suggestions?
|> 

Use strod () in the Linux C library. I will make a new version 4.3.3 RSN.
The current one, 4.3.2, has a litte bug.

FYI, strtod () in the Linux C library is one of the only two free strtod()
which I know work on i386. I wrote the other one before I chose the current
one for the Linux C library.

Anyone interested to port the Linux C library to 386BSD? I know it is
copylefted.

|> Two ported programs are waiting.....
|> 
|> Thanks!
|> 
|> Al Rosenthal
|> air+@pitt.edu

H.J.