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

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 May 2008 17:28, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> Keith Marshall wrote:
> > Patches posted here will likely be lost; for possible inclusion in
> > the distribution, they need to go to the patch tracker:
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=302435&group_id=2435&func=brow
> >se
> >
> > You should also provide a ChangeLog entry, in the format specified
> > by the GNU Coding Standards:
> > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html
>
> Done.

Thanks.  Unless there are any contentious issues, Chris will likely 
include it in the next release.

> > We also need to consider how we document such deviations from
> > standard MSVCRT behaviour.  A manpage for the augmented function,
> > included in the patch, would be nice; at the very least, a page on
> > MinGWiki, where we collectively document *all* such enhancements is
> > needed, (in addition to any provided manpages), IMO.
>
> Maybe something like a README.NON_PORTABLE that pthreads-win32 uses?

The problem with README files is that few users do.  I prefer something 
the community can peruse, and help to maintain--give them a degree of 
ownership, and they'll be more likely to use it.

The suggestion of a manpage, of course, was rather tongue-in-cheek; it 
would still be nice though, to give my `man' package some additional 
fodder--note that I *did* provide manpages for the basename(3) and 
dirname(3) functions which I added to libmingwex.a, and also for the 
gencat(1), catopen(3), catgets(3) and catclose(3) components of the 
catgets library which I recently provided.

Regards,
Keith.

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