--- strtod.c	Wed Apr  7 16:52:39 1999
+++ strtod.c.new	Wed Apr  3 19:14:18 2002
@@ -245,13 +245,32 @@
 	  else
 	    {
 	      /* No exponent after an 'E' : that's an error. */
-	      ptr->_errno = EINVAL;
+	      /* This seems not to be true. We can arrive here parsing a 
+	       * number string of the form ....E0000.. And to my understanding,
+	       * this is a number times 1 and perfectly legal.? So I propose
+	       * to simply set e to 0 and continue. If there is *really*
+	       * no digit after the 'E' we will find ourselves behind next
+	       * "else".
+	       * address@hidden
+	       */
+	      //ptr->_errno = EINVAL;
 	      e = 0;
-	      goto ret;
+	      //goto ret;
 	    }
 	}
-      else
+      else 
+       {
+	/* No exponent after an 'E' : that's an error. */
+	/* I thimk this is not true before here. So we could place the 
+	 * the error exit code here: 
+	 */ 
+	ptr->_errno = EINVAL;
+	e = 0;
+	goto ret;
+	
+	/* I do not see what this line means... */
 	s = s00;
+      }
     }
   if (!nd)
     {