> 
> Well, you have the last word: i haven't the definitive Standard,
> just the last free draft. It seems things have been refined between
> these two documents. I better have to spare some Euros to buy it.

Neither do I, but the SuS is aligned with it (or maybe the same
as it these days) and is available online.
Go to www.opengroup.org and dig...
eg: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/strtod.html

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk