On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:31:15PM -0600, Mike Barton wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] red]$ cat test.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main() {
> char string[1024] = "1.00";
> printf("atof(%s) = %f\n", string, atof(string));
> }
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] red]$ make test
> cc test.c -o test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] red]$ ./test
> atof(1.00) = 0.000000
>
> It took me like a half hour to figure out that if you don't include stdlib.h,
> atof points to never-never land.
If you had run gcc with -Wall, you would have seen this:
test.c:5: warning: implicit declaration of function `atof'
Edwin
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