Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13 Severity: normal The ISO C standard requires "INF" to be accepted by strtod:
-- one of INF or INFINITY, ignoring case But in Turkish locales (LC_ALL=tr_TR.iso88599), where the lowercase 'I' is the dotless 'i', "INF" (or similar) is not recognized as the infinity. This can be seen with the following program and LC_ALL="tr_TR.iso88599". #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <locale.h> int main (void) { double x; char *end; int err; if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "") == NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "Can't set locales\n"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } x = strtod ("INF", &end); err = *end != '\0'; printf ("x = %f - error: %s\n", x, err ? "yes" : "no"); return err; } Note: I reported this bug on 2005-08-22 here: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1230 when I had the libc6 2.3.5-4 Debian package. It was fixed on 2005-09-28 in the CVS trunk. But it is still present in Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii tzdata 2007c-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time libc6 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]