Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:34:07 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: newlib@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: strtof is missing Message-ID: <20021205103407.N1140@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com References: <200211240004.04863.jblazi@gmx.de> <177909597.20021124103437@vtc.ru> <20021124105015.X1398@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3DEE5BD8.5000408@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEE5BD8.5000408@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:47:36PM -0500, J. Johnston wrote: > It is not a typo. Newlib was created to be ANSI with some Unix extensions. > Originally, strtodf was added in 1992 as an extension. Since then, C99 > has defined strtof. > > Now, that said, since there is a strtof() routine defined in C99, we might > as well rename the extension. > > The following is a patch which renames strtodf to be strtof and leaves a > #define mapping in stdlib for anybody using the old name. Eventually, we > should > be able to remove the old name entirely. Thanks Jeff, but I guess it's better to keep the strtodf() function for backward compatibility. I would suggest just to add another function strtof() so that old applications (linked e.g. against old versions of Cygwin) will keep running under newer versions. Removing the symbol might break these applications (though I assume there aren't that much apps using strtodf). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/