Document that this function does accept localized infinities and nans.

        * glib/gstrfuncs.c (g_ascii_strtod): Document that this
        function does accept localized infinities and nans. Reported
        by Morten Welinder.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=7195

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cf522ff..a64b42f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2008-07-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+       Bug 406120 – g_ascii_strtod
+
+       * glib/gstrfuncs.c (g_ascii_strtod): Document that this
+       function does accept localized infinities and nans. Reported
+       by Morten Welinder.
+
+2008-07-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
        Bug 482413 - get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
 
        * glib/gfileutils.c (get_contents_stdio): Detect overflow and

diff --git a/glib/gstrfuncs.c b/glib/gstrfuncs.c
index e9c9e31..fcb0937 100644 (file)
--- a/glib/gstrfuncs.c
+++ b/glib/gstrfuncs.c
@@ -332,10 +332,12 @@ g_strtod (const gchar *nptr,
  *           the last character used in the conversion.
  * 
  * Converts a string to a #gdouble value.
+ *
  * This function behaves like the standard strtod() function
- * does in the C locale. It does this without actually
- * changing the current locale, since that would not be
- * thread-safe.
+ * does in the C locale. It does this without actually changing 
+ * the current locale, since that would not be thread-safe. 
+ * A limitation of the implementation is that this function
+ * will still accept localized versions of infinities and NANs. 
  *
  * This function is typically used when reading configuration
  * files or other non-user input that should be locale independent.