Re: [Mingw-users] Wrong endptr in strtold()

[Egon A. <po...@ta...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2005-01-31 06:05 AM, Egon Andersen wrote:
> 
>>
>> I've experienced a strange behaviour of strtold() when the string is 
>> "1e".
>> I would have expected that the endptr was pointing at the second char 
>> of the above string i.e. the 'e', but apparently it accepts the 'e' as 
>> a part of the convertable string and the result is 1.0
> 
> 
> As I read C99 6.4.4.2, if an exponent-part is given, then
> it must contain a digit-sequence.
> 
>> Is this a bug or have I misunderstood the behaviour of strtold()?
>> (On my Linux-platform, it works as I expect.)
> 
> 
> It sounds like a defect of the msvc runtime library.
> 

I don't think strtold() is in the msvc runtime library, but is in the 
MinGW extension.

Best regards
Egon Andersen