Changes to glibc function strtod in RHEL6 result in unexpected results
Issue
- Program running into errors referencing the
strtodfunction
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
int main()
{
char* s = "1.00000000000000e-308";
char* endptr;
double ret;
errno = 0;
ret = strtod(s, &endptr);
if (errno) {
if (errno == ERANGE)
printf("Error: ERANGE(%s)\n.", strerror(errno));
else
printf("Error: other (%s)\n", strerror(errno));
} else {
printf("Success: %lf.\n", ret);
}
return 0;
Works on Redhat 5.5 with the following output
[root@box lubo]# ./fl
Success: 0.000000.
Fails on Redhat 6.2 with the following output
[root@box tmp]# ./fl
Error: ERANGE(Numerical result out of range)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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