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From: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Subject: Re: strtof (C99) [PATCH]
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:42:09 +0100 (MET)
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> Please find below a patch to add strtof. The code is based on strtod.

Thanks.

But is there any reason not to call strtod() followed by two
comparisions for overflow detection (or four, underflow too) and
returning that?

> Please note that I don't know a whole lot about floating point. I've

But then I'm in this class too...


Right,

						MartinS