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Re: RFA: strtod patch
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: strtod patch
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 16 Sep 2001 15:31:19 -0600
- Cc: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <495930000.1000661674@gandalf.codesourcery.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> Is there a reason that the version in the Java library needs to
Mark> work differently from the usual strtod function?
I don't really know about the specific case of strtod. As a general
note, though, when you see C math code in libgcj, it is there because
there is a Java requirement for IEEE conformant math. (This
requirement has changed over time; libgcj is still back in the JDK 1.1
days as far as math goes.)
Tom