From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Atof() problem
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:45:19 -0500
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Ben Leslie wrote:
> 
> I am trying to port a C program from UNIX to the PC using DJGPP.
> Eveything was going swimmingly, until I hit this problem. Calls to atof
> return zero. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Try putting #include <stdlib.h> in your code.  If you don't provide a
declaration for atof(), the compiler assumes it returns an int, which
obviously won't work.

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