>>>>> "David" == David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:

David> It also points you at strtod....

David> What more do you want?

Just the truth...

According to WG14/N869 Committee Draft, section 7.20.1.1, and manpages
of some other Unices:

Description 

2 The atof function converts the initial portion of the string pointed
to by nptr to double representation. Except for the behavior on error,
it is equivalent to 

strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL)

NetBSD manpage seems to insinuate that atof() is simpy equivalent to
strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL). It's not sufficient (as far i understand
the english word "equivalent").
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