stdlib/FreeBSD/atof.3.patch

   1 --- atof.3.orig Fri Mar 11 10:10:58 2005
   2 +++ atof.3      Fri Mar 11 10:12:33 2005
   3 @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
   4  .Dt ATOF 3
   5  .Os
   6  .Sh NAME
   7 -.Nm atof
   8 +.Nm atof ,
   9 +.Nm atof_l
  10  .Nd convert
  11  .Tn ASCII
  12  string to double
  13 @@ -50,6 +51,9 @@
  14  .In stdlib.h
  15  .Ft double
  16  .Fn atof "const char *nptr"
  17 +.In xlocale.h
  18 +.Ft double
  19 +.Fn atof_l "const char *nptr" "locale_t loc"
  20  .Sh DESCRIPTION
  21  The
  22  .Fn atof
  23 @@ -67,6 +71,14 @@
  24  The decimal point
  25  character is defined in the program's locale (category
  26  .Dv LC_NUMERIC ) .
  27 +.Pp
  28 +While the
  29 +.Fn atof
  30 +function uses the current locale, the
  31 +.Fn atof_l
  32 +function may be passed a locale directly. See
  33 +.Xr xlocale 3
  34 +for more information.
  35  .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
  36  The
  37  .Fn atof
  38 @@ -88,7 +100,8 @@
  39  .Xr atol 3 ,
  40  .Xr strtod 3 ,
  41  .Xr strtol 3 ,
  42 -.Xr strtoul 3
  43 +.Xr strtoul 3 ,
  44 +.Xr xlocale 3
  45  .Sh STANDARDS
  46  The
  47  .Fn atof