[PATCH] Fix hpux10 string to real conversion defficiences

[John David Anglin]

> I assume one objective is to enable inf and nan in read_f? So, that is
> the next step?
> 
> Checking the F2003 standard we can have an optional () or (some text).
> 
> (1) an optional sign, followed by the string ’INF’ or the string
> ’INFINITY’ or
> (2) an optional sign, followed by the string ’NAN’, optionally followed
> by zero or more alphanumeric characters enclosed in parentheses.
> 
> Keeping with the way we have the code factored now, I think the
> interpreting of the inf and nan should be done in read_f and leave
> convert_real to the numbers only.

I'll take a look at this, but I doubt I will be able to work on it
until early May.  For the optional string in parenthesis, it could
be ignored for targets that have broken strtod implementations.

Dave
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