[OCLUG-devel] problems with atof()

[Christopher Smith]

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 20:46, James Colannino wrote:
> Christopher Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 16:40, James Colannino wrote:
> > 
> >>Anyone know why the following won't work?  I'm compiling with gcc 3.3.3 
> >>if that makes a difference.
> > 
> > 
> > You failed to #include <stdlib.h>, which is where atof() is defined.
> 
> Wow...how embarrasing... :-P

Nah, it's the kind of mistake we all make. Notice that noone else
figured out this problem. ;-)

> But this begs the question: if I was trying to use a function that 
> wasn't defined, then why didn't I get a compiler error?

My guess is that there is a compiler builtin for atof() with a slightly
different signature from the standard function.

-- 
Christopher Smith <x at xman.org>