bug in atof

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Louis" == Louis Lenders <xerox_xerox2000 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

    Louis> Hi, i filed a bug ( bug 4337) and looks like there's a bug in
    Louis> atof. Is there a difference between linux' atof and msvcrt's one?
    Louis> Even following simple program (from msdn) yields wrong results:
    Louis> // crt_atof.c #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h>

    Louis> int main( void ) { char *s; double x; int i; long l;

    Louis>    s = " -2309.12E-15"; /* Test of atof */ x = atof( s ); printf(
    Louis> "atof test: \"%s\"; float: %e\n", s, x );

    Louis>    s = "7.8912654773d210"; /* Test of atof */ x = atof( s );
    Louis> printf( "atof test: \"%s\"; float: %e\n", s, x );

    Louis>    s = " -9885 pigs"; /* Test of atoi */ i = atoi( s ); printf(
    Louis> "atoi test: \"%s\"; integer: %d\n", s, i );

    Louis>    s = "98854 dollars"; /* Test of atol */ l = atol( s ); printf(
    Louis> "atol test: \"%s\"; long: %ld\n", s, l ); } the exponent value in
    Louis> float x are wrong. Thanks


Not atof() is the cause of your bug, but printf(). 
I entered your sample into the test suite to show the correct behaviour of
wine's implementation of atof. The printf() test has already a todo for the
incorrect exponent output.
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