MinGW, C99 + strtod

Apologies up front for not finding this already. I'd Googled earlier and didn't find what I was looking for in a reasonable amount of time. And then I've had many distractions throughout this time too. :(

The basic thing is this: with Code::Blocks' setup with MinGW, I tried to do this:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>

int mygetd(double *result);

int main(void)
{
  double value = -12.3;
  do
  {
      fputs("Enter a floating-point number: ", stdout);
      fflush(stdout);
  } while ( !mygetd(&value) );
  printf("value = %g\n", value);
  return 0;
}

/**
 * Attempt to read a double value from the stdin.
 * @param  result  pointer to a double into which the result will be written if
 *                a double is successfully converted
 * @return
 *    0 - failed to convert all text into a valid double, or
 *    1 - successfully obtained a double and placed its value in *result
 */
int mygetd(double *result)
{
  char *end, buff [ 32 ];
  fgets(buff, sizeof buff, stdin);
  errno = 0;
  *result = strtod(buff, &end);
  if ( errno )
  {
      perror("strtod");
  }
  return !isspace(*buff) && (*end == '\n' || *end == '\0');
}

/* my output
Enter a floating-point number: 0X1P-23F
Enter a floating-point number: 0X1.fffffffffffffP1023
Enter a floating-point number: 1.7976931348623157E+308
value = 1.79769e+308
*/

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It ain't takin' too kindly to some C99-okay input, and I've been trying to see if that's a bug with MinGW's standard library implementation, or if I need to further link with specific libraries.

I'll continue looking, but if anyone else cares to take the time to lend me a hand, I'll be grateful.

It's probably not important, but that looks like a NAN to me. This is what n1124 says:

Quote:

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NAN or NAN(n-char-sequence ),ignoring case in the NAN part, where:
opt
n-char-sequence:
digit
nondigit
n-char-sequence digit
n-char-sequence nondigit
The subject sequence is defined as the longest initial subsequence of the input string,
starting with the first non-white-space character,that is of the expected form.The subject
sequence contains no characters if the input string is not of the expected form.

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Another implementation admits that strtod and friends do not understand NAN syntax, though the page is three years old. This is probably the same case for yours.

HTH.

Doesn't MinGW take the same approach as dev-c++ (which uses MinGW) in that it adopts the msvcrt standard library. So you get all the warts and baggage which that gives you.

ISTR that to print a long long for example, you have to use the %I64 or whatever it is rather than the standard "%lld"

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

Doesn't MinGW take the same approach as dev-c++ (which uses MinGW) in that it adopts the msvcrt standard library. So you get all the warts and baggage which that gives you.

ISTR that to print a long long for example, you have to use the %I64 or whatever it is rather than the standard "%lld"

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Ah, yes. That's probably the direction I need to head for this issue.

Code:

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int main(void)
{
  double value = 0X1P-23F;
#if 0
  do
  {
      fputs("Enter a floating-point number: ", stdout);
      fflush(stdout);
  } while ( !mygetd(&value) );
#endif
  printf("value = %g\n", value);
  return 0;
}

/* my output
J:\Forum\StdC.exe
value = 1.19209e-007
*/

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The compiler seems fine with this syntax.

Thanks for the memory jog, I forgot about the msvcrt tie.