[OCLUG-devel] problems with atof()

[James Colannino]

Anyone know why the following won't work?  I'm compiling with gcc 3.3.3 
if that makes a difference.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{
	char number[] = "1.293";
	double number_float = atof(number);

	printf ("\nnumber is: %f\n\n", number_float);
	return 0;
}

Instead of printing to the screen something even vaguely resembling 
1.293, it instead shows me the following (perhaps it would be different 
on a different macine):

-996432413.000000

I'm pretty sure I'm using atof() correctly, and I'm not sure why this is 
happening :(

James
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