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| author | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-09-09 21:09:53 +0000 |
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| committer | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-09-09 21:09:53 +0000 |
| commit | fe6129599e38ab76926b2f7265b7c77a55675e2c (patch) | |
| tree | ecf10b76c489cd48459da9ca6690e0ac7288a194 /lib/libc/stdlib | |
| parent | 0c4612275a0acd8cd31bcf475fcb1ab710549ffa (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-fe6129599e38ab76926b2f7265b7c77a55675e2c.zip FreeBSD-src-fe6129599e38ab76926b2f7265b7c77a55675e2c.tar.gz | |
Add more standards which we conform to.
Note our implementation is not thread nor async-cancel safe.
Explicitely note atof() does not check nor report errors.
Note that strtod() should be used instead.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/atof.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/atof.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/atof.3 index 4a4c3e3..d9ae36e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/atof.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/atof.3 @@ -67,6 +67,20 @@ strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL); The decimal point character is defined in the program's locale (category .Dv LC_NUMERIC ) . +.Pp +The +.Fn atof +function does not detect errors. +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +The +.Fn atof +function is not thread-safe and also not async-cancel-safe. +.Pp +The +.Fn atof +function has been deprecated by +.Fn strtod +and should not be used in new code. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr atoi 3 , .Xr atol 3 , @@ -77,4 +91,7 @@ character is defined in the program's locale (category The .Fn atof function conforms to -.St -isoC . +.St -isoC , +.St -p1003.1 , +and +.St -isoC-99 . |
