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atof.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions 

The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:39:24 1993, David Metcalfe
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:39:22 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH ATOF 3 2012-08-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH ATOF 3 2013-10-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
atof \- convert a string to a double
.SH SYNOPSIS
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does not detect errors.
.SH RETURN VALUE
The converted value.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
.BR atof ()
function is thread-safe with exceptions.
It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as
.BR setlocale (3)
is not called to change the locale.
.SH CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
.SH SEE ALSO