mcgrath@rosemary.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) (06/04/88)
I just noticed in the Rationale (of the Jan 88 draft) the sentence about `strtod': The requirement that errno be set to EDOM when the argument string does not begin with a valid number string allows easy checking for invalid input. (4.10.1.4, Rationale) However, this requirement is not made in the Standard proper for strtod or for strtol or stroul (the section for strtol in the Rationale says ``See 4.10.1.4''). Is this actually required or not? Roland McGrath roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu, mit-eddie!wheaties.ai.mit.edu!roland
gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP (06/05/88)
In article <24522@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mcgrath@rosemary.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes: >I just noticed in the Rationale ...: > The requirement that errno be set to EDOM when ... >Is this actually required or not? As you have already observed, it is not required by the proposed Standard. This appears to be a historical vestige that needs to be removed from the Rationale.