atof reads string as 0

Question

I suppose I am just stupid (I tried all). Help me out of here:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main()
{
    const char * y = "747.0";
    double x;
    x = atof(y);
    printf("%.5f\n",x);
    printf("%e\n",x);
    return 0;
}

result:

0.00000
0.000000e+00

Answer 1

You need to include stdlib.h to offer atof() a prototype, without proper prototype, compiler will suppose its return value be an int.