***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] strtod is not C99-compatible

[Ramiro Polla <ramiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Ramiro Polla wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible that a function to replace strtod() with a C99-compliant
>> implementation be made the same way it was done with snprintf? And then
>> one would have to call _strtod to get the original MSVCRT version.
> 
> This is really the kind of thing that gnulib excels at.  You just add
> the strtod module to your project and you get a working replacement
> strtod() that is guaranteed standards-compliant, on any of many dozens
> of platforms, with fallback to the native target's underlying strtod()
> if it is non-broken.

FFmpeg doesn't use autotools, and gnulib seems to have some license 
implications (GPL might have to be used. I haven't checked though).

I think the same reasoning used to implment _mingw_snprintf() should be 
used for a _mingw_strtod(). And I volunteer to implement it.

Ramiro Polla

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