Re: strtod(3) sets errno upon success ?

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Sat 14 May 2011 at 00:32:58 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and the manpage for errno describes that on the first page.

>  Thomas
-Olaf.
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