On 06/14/2010 12:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > >> Or even better, why not push those two tests upstream into autoconf, >> then have gnulib override AC_FUNC_STRTOD if it detects older autoconf, >> so that everyone using upstream AC_FUNC_STRTOD can reliably detect these >> same bugs? > > The strtod() tests that are currently in gl_FUNC_STRTOD, but not > in AC_FUNC_STRTOD, are tests for C99 features that are not in > C90. The Autoconf manual's description of AC_FUNC_STRTOD says > only that it tests that strtod() works "correctly", but it does > not say what standard it is testing against. Is it appropriate > for AC_FUNC_STRTOD to start requiring a C99-compliant strtod()?
Given that autoconf's AC_FUNC_STRTOLD checks for a C99-compliant strtold, I'd say yes. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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