On 11/18/10 13:59, Paul Eggert wrote: > Something > like the following patch should address that issue, I expect.
I installed this slightly-different patch: >From a632f45b2e5ce87e0aad94a39c658dac1a29fcd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:49:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ftoastr: port to hosts lacking strtof and strtold Problem reported by Bruno Haible in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00242.html>. * lib/ftoastr.c (STRTOF): Define to strtod if in a pre-C99 environment and strtold (and presumably strtof) are not available. * modules/ftoastr (Files): Add m4/c-strtod.m4. (configure.ac): Require gl_C99_STRTOLD. --- ChangeLog | 10 ++++++++++ lib/ftoastr.c | 8 ++++++++ modules/ftoastr | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0ab0af3..c923b68 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2010-11-18 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> + + ftoastr: port to hosts lacking strtof and strtold + Problem reported by Bruno Haible in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00242.html>. + * lib/ftoastr.c (STRTOF): Define to strtod if in a pre-C99 + environment and strtold (and presumably strtof) are not available. + * modules/ftoastr (Files): Add m4/c-strtod.m4. + (configure.ac): Require gl_C99_STRTOLD. + 2010-11-17 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> intprops: new macro INT_BITS_STRLEN_BOUND diff --git a/lib/ftoastr.c b/lib/ftoastr.c index 25e0705..ddc5251 100644 --- a/lib/ftoastr.c +++ b/lib/ftoastr.c @@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ # define STRTOF strtof #endif +/* On pre-C99 hosts, approximate strtof and strtold with strtod. This + may generate one or two extra digits, but that's better than not + working at all. Assume that strtof works if strtold does. */ +#if LENGTH != 2 && ! HAVE_C99_STRTOLD +# undef STRTOF +# define STRTOF strtod +#endif + int FTOASTR (char *buf, size_t bufsize, int flags, int width, FLOAT x) { diff --git a/modules/ftoastr b/modules/ftoastr index fbc0cba..64d0a77 100644 --- a/modules/ftoastr +++ b/modules/ftoastr @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ lib/ftoastr.h lib/ftoastr.c lib/dtoastr.c lib/ldtoastr.c +m4/c-strtod.m4 Depends-on: intprops configure.ac: +AC_REQUIRE([gl_C99_STRTOLD]) Makefile.am: lib_SOURCES += ftoastr.h ftoastr.c dtoastr.c ldtoastr.c -- 1.7.2
