@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'.
-@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@end smallexample
In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even
-when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}.
+when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,},
+and no characters outside the basic character set are accepted.
+
+On platforms without @code{strtod_l}, this function is not safe for use in
+multi-threaded applications since it calls @code{setlocale}.