On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:49 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > BTW, does anybody know why we are not using the system strtod() when > available? That seems the way to the quickest solution on most > platforms. It seems to work with some simple tests for me. But I notice > that there is no strtod_r(), just strtod(). But I couldn't find a > definitive answer on whether or not the standard strtod() is guaranteed > to be thread-safe or not. Does anybody know (where to find this > information)?
OK found that out myself. Apparently some strtod implementations are indeed not thread-safe by default (but most seem to be). The other problem is that strtod depends on the locale and changing the locale isn't thread-safe... sigh. So we do need our own implementation, or do something like glib g_ascii_strtod() and convert the string representation first to the current locale form (eeeewwww). Cheers, Mark
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