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Standard C lacks portable string-to-float error detection

Original: No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

A developer has written that the C standard library offers no portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors, a limitation affecting code that relies on functions like strtod across platforms. Programmers are debating workarounds and the shortcomings of the standard's error reporting for numeric parsing.

Why now: Developers are discussing a long-standing gap in the C standard library that complicates writing portable numeric parsing code.

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