Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 07:34 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> > strtod() is more portable than %n,
>
> Unless we have somebody verify to us that strtod() implements the same
> ANSI standard more correctly than sscanf(), on OS-9, we don't know that.

?? The point is that using strtod we don't *need* %n.
Where does "more correctly" come into it?

>  > and allows more complete
> > error reporting than sscanf().
>
> No, it doesn't.  It tells us nothing that sscanf()'s return value,
> combined with the output of %n, wouldn't.

strtod sets errno;  scanf does not.
Not that it's a big deal, since the code currently has no provision
for reported over- or under- flow.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington 98195-7742