5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/strtod.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 This function is missing on some old platforms.
15 This function mis-parses strings with leading @samp{+} on some old platforms:
16 Old versions of Linux.
19 This function returns a wrong end pointer on some platforms:
23 This function fails to do a valid parse of @samp{-0x} on some
25 glibc 2.4, Cygwin < 1.5.25-11.
28 This function fails to parse Infinities and plain NaNs on some platforms:
29 Solaris 8, Mingw, OpenBSD 4.0.
32 This function fails to parse NaN() on some platforms:
33 Solaris 8, Mingw, OpenBSD 4.0, Cygwin < 1.5.25-11.
36 This function fails to parse NaN(n-char-sequence) on some platforms:
37 Solaris 8, Mingw, OpenBSD 4.0.
40 This function returns the wrong end pointer when parsing
41 NaN(n-char-sequence) on some platforms:
45 This function fails to parse C99 hexadecimal floating point on some
47 Solaris 8, Mingw, OpenBSD 4.0.
50 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
53 This function returns a positive value for negative underflow on some
55 glibc 2.7, Mingw, Cygwin.
58 This function cannot distinguish between ``nan'' and ``-nan'' on some
63 This function fails to correctly parse very long strings on some
68 The replacement function does not always return correctly rounded results.