Re: [PATCH] strtod: work around IRIX 6.5 bug

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:49:58PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> IRIX mis-parses "1e 1" as 10.0 and "" instead of 1.0 and "e 1".
> Because the original parse may differ from the reparse in terms
> of whether the value overflows, we have to do an errno dance.
> 
> * lib/strtod.c (strtod): Reparse number on shorter string if
> exponent parse was invalid.
> Reported by Tom G. Christensen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---

I applied this on top of a fresh gnulib checkout and unfortunately the
test still fails in the same place.

-tgc