bug in strtod?

[Thomas Hergenhahn]

Dear all,
I hope this is the right place to post a patch fo libjava.
I'm using libjava from GCC-3.0.4 on Linux i386.
I tried to convert a string of the form 1.234E+000 to a double using 
Double.doubleValue(). The result was allways zero (no NumberFormatException). 
IMHO, this is a bug. I traced that down until finding the responsible lines 
of code in java/lang/strtod.c. The following patch works for me, but better 
take a deeper look on it. 
BTW, why must libjava implement all this itself? Is it to achieve platform 
independency down to the last bit? Does it take advantage of FPU, if one is 
present ?

Yours sincerely

Thomas Hergenhahn

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