From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: What NOT To POST Here!! Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 06:15:11 GMT
In article <1q1cij$1rb0@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
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>In article <1993Apr7.183902.16382@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
>(HJ Lu) writes:
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>> If you still remember how you made gcc 2.3.3, you will know.
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>Feh. I found one bug; everything else went perfectly smoothly. It was
Yes. One junky strtod () in the C library. I was told there were a few
more bugs in the 386bsd C library. I really don't like what I heard.
Send me email if you want to know more.
>basically trivial.
And fatal.
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>Maybe the person who ported it to Linux would care to share *his*
I did that :-).
>experiences. (Ahem.)
>
Get a decent C library with a working strtod (). BTW, someone has
posted the same strtod () used in the Linux C library from AT&T netlib
to 386bsd recently.
H.J,