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Hi.  I hope that this is a reasonable place to post this.?

I'm running FreeBSD, a modified Jolitz 386BSD, on my PC, using the supplied gcc
2.4.something.  Anyhow, I don't think that's too important here.  I'm trying to
compile a software package which claims to compile on any BSD machine ;-), and
all the ansi stuff (almost everything) goes with no problem.  However, I get an
unresolved reference to ecvt().  Well, I've looked and it doesn't exist in my
libc (glibc).  I've looked on my department's HP735 and DECstation5000/200, and
both support it.  Unfortunately, the man page is rather vague, although it
tells me enough to write it (I guess).  The man page on the HP says that it has
"STANDARDS CONFORMANCE:  XPG2".

Well, hell if I know what that is.  My post is basically a request for info on
whether or not this function is supported in any GNU libs or if someone else
has had this problem and has written it themself (and wouldn't mind sharing
it).

So far, it's been supported on every "major" brand machine I have accounts on
(which is too many).  Therefore, my guess is that it conforms to some
"standard" which is either too obscure or not deemed important enough to have
been supported in GNU C.

Anyway, thanks for any help and for taking the time to read my post.

Shawn Slavin
Indiana University Astronomy Department

Internet:  sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu