strtod vs NAN?

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 22:21:23 -0400 "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" 
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 22:14, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>   char **ptr;
>>
>>   num=strtod(input,ptr);
>
> Since ptr is uninitialized, strtod() is trying to store a pointer into
> random memory.  You probably want to say this instead:
>
>     char *ptr;
>
>     num = strtod(input, &ptr);

Thanks.  Stupid C error(s) from a novice :).

That was indeed it.




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