Re: strtod(3) sets errno upon success ?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:55:10PM +0200, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> I just encountered a small problem with strtod(3) that alter errno
> upon success, on my up-to-date -current amd64 and alpha machines. The
> following sample code exhibit the problem :
...
> Anyone else ?

I was recently told that one shouldn't check errno if the call was
successful, because some called library function might have set it to
a value that's irrelevant, since the call you did was successful.
 Thomas