Package: manpages-dev
Version: 3.17-1
Severity: normal
The strtod(3) man page is incorrect concerning NAN(...). It says:
A NAN is "NAN" (disregarding case) optionally followed by '(', a
sequence of characters, followed by ')'.
but doesn't require anything concerning the sequence of characters
(one may think that any sequence is allowed up to the first closing
parenthesis). However the glibc 2.9-6 package seems to strictly
follow the ISO C99 standard, which says:
[Section 7.20.1.3]
NAN or NAN(n-char-sequence_opt), ignoring case in the NAN part,
where:
n-char-sequence:
digit
nondigit
n-char-sequence digit
n-char-sequence nondigit
[Section 6.4.2.1]
nondigit: one of
_ a b c d e f g h i j k l m
n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
digit: one of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Also the man page should explicitly say that the sequence can be
empty. So, I propose:
A NAN is "NAN" (disregarding case) optionally followed by '(',
a possibly empty sequence of characters, followed by ')'. Each
character of the sequence must be either the underscore '_' or
an alphanumeric character in the "C" locale.
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