Re: [PATCH] strtod: work around IRIX 6.5 bug

[Eric Blake]

On 09/02/2010 09:35 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:49:58PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > IRIX mis-parses "1e 1" as 10.0 and "" instead of 1.0 and "e 1".
> > Because the original parse may differ from the reparse in terms
> > of whether the value overflows, we have to do an errno dance.
> >
> > * lib/strtod.c (strtod): Reparse number on shorter string if
> > exponent parse was invalid.
> > Reported by Tom G. Christensen.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake<address@hidden>
> > ---
>
> I applied this on top of a fresh gnulib checkout and unfortunately the
> test still fails in the same place.

:(  Well, thanks for the feedback.  I guess it's time for me to get 
inside a debugger and simulate the actual IRIX failure, rather than just 
relying on successful compilation.  I'll post another attempt soon.

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