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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: strtod setting errno to EDOM?
Message-ID: <8010@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 4 Jun 88 21:05:32 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <24522@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mcgrath@rosemary.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes:
>I just noticed in the Rationale ...:
>	The requirement that errno be set to EDOM when ...
>Is this actually required or not?

As you have already observed, it is not required by the proposed Standard.
This appears to be a historical vestige that needs to be removed from the
Rationale.