[avr-chat] Bug in atof shipped with avr-libc?

[Matt.Vandewerken]

Hi all:

I think I've found a bug in the version of atof that ships with the latest/last 
version of Winavr. 

When I pass it a string with a floating point number, the number it returns is 
incorrect.

For example, I can pass it '-1033\0', and the result is something like -15640. 
Similarly, I can pass it '0.33', and the result is 16000 and something. It 
seems that the only thing it gets right are the sign and when the input string 
is '0.00'.

I have reimplemented atof as my_atof, and it works perfectly.

Note that this incorrect behaviour is also apparent in avr-gcc shipped with 
ubuntu 10.04.2.

An example of code that demonstrates the behaviour is below:

float atof_test(void){
        static char buf[10];
        char* pbuf = buf;

        buf[0] = '-';
        buf[1] = '0';
        buf[2] = '.';
        buf[3] = '3';
        buf[4] = '3';
        buf[5] = '\0';

        return atof(pbuf);
}

Cheers,
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