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

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If the result underflows (7. 12. 2), the functions return a value whose magnitude is no greater than the smallest normalized positive number in the return type; if the integer expression math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO is nonzero, whether errno acquires the value ERANGE is implementation-defined; if the integer expression math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT is nonzero, whether the "underflow" floating-point exception is raised is implementation-defined.

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