On 07/29/2014 06:56 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/29/2014 09:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> "inf" is supported on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris at least > > Case-insensitive "inf" and "infinity" are required by POSIX for all > strtod() implementations; and are required to map to floating point > infinities for all but ancient hardware that lacks such a number (in > which case it maps to HUGE_VAL instead). Any libc that can't parse > "inf" is non-POSIX-compliant, and we could argue that gnulib's strtod > should be used to work around that broken implementation. Therefore, I > think the documentation should be unconditional that both forms are > supported.
Thanks for the details. Would you mind providing a documentation patch? Thanks & have a nice day, Berny
