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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: why doesn't atof work properly ?
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 00:50:06 GMT
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- Message-ID: <823481406snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4f0ivh$3g7e@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <3FEB199617132831@erich.triumf.ca> <9602041608.AA19516@dxmint.cern.ch>
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- In article <9602041608.AA19516@dxmint.cern.ch>
- danpop@mail.cern.ch "Dan Pop" writes:
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- >bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett) writes:
- >
- >>You need to #include either (or both, if you wish) math.h or stdlib.h to get
- >>the prototype for atof().
- >
- >Actually, I couldn't find any requirement that <math.h> contains a
- >declaration for atof.
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- Right - atof isn't defined in <math.h> nor is it reserved so an ANSI
- implementation is prohibited from defining it in <math.h>
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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