add/clarify comments in

   static int ParameterSetReal (t_param *param, const char *value)


git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@3513 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/Parameters.c b/src/main/Parameters.c
index 79f55b72..7db92017 100644
--- a/src/main/Parameters.c
+++ b/src/main/Parameters.c
@@ -2124,7 +2124,11 @@ static int ParameterSetReal (t_param *param, const char *value)
   char *endptr;
 
 
-  /*  Convert the value string to a double. Allow various formats.*/
+  /*
+   * Canonicalize the string by converting all exponent letters
+   * (we allow [eEdD]) to 'e', since strtod(3) (which we will use
+   * to do the actual conversion) only groks [eE].
+   */
   temp = strdup (value);
   for (p = 0; p < strlen (temp); p++)
   {