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+/*
+ *  Copyright (c) 2002, OpenBeOS Project.
+ *  All rights reserved.
+ *  Distributed under the terms of the OpenBeOS license.
+ *
+ *
+ *  atof.c:
+ *  implements the standard C library function atof()
+ *  (merely a wrapper for strtod(), actually)
+ *
+ *
+ *  Author(s):
+ *  Daniel Reinhold (danielre@users.sf.net)
+ *
+ */
+ 
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+
+double
+atof(const char *num)
+{
+	return strtod(num, NULL);
+}
+
+