strtod (and atof) on hex numbers

["Paul Biggar" <paul dot biggar at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

atof (and hence strtod) on hexadecimal numbers results in 0.0 (errno
of 0). This may be related to an old issue where NaN isnt correctly
parsed. I believe it isnt correct behaviour:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/atof.html



I've tested it for integers in the range 0x8000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF. It
works properly on

ubuntu dapper, gcc 4.1 on i386;
debian stable, gcc 3.3 on amd64
sunos ?, gcc 3.4 on sparc

I'm using standard cygwin distribution, which uses gcc 3.4.4 (cygming special)

Sample code:

#include "limits.h"
#include <iostream.h>
#include "errno.h"

int main()

{
       cout << ULONG_MAX << endl;
       cout << 0xFFFFFFFF << endl;

       errno = 0;
       cout << atof("0xFFFFFFFF") << endl;
       cout << errno << endl;

       errno = 0;
       cout << strtod("0xFFFFFFFF", NULL) << endl;
       cout << errno << endl;

}


Is this being fixed? I could find a mention of it before. Does anyone
know a simple workaround?

Thanks
Paul



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Paul Biggar
paul.biggar@gmail.com

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