Hi,

At last !!!
These changes (after some needed modifications) were pushed into blead a few hours ago.
And bleadperl is now assigning values using Perl_strtod whenever Perl_strtod is defined.

Thanks go to BUK for the prodding he provided; to aitap for assistance in identifying the nature of the lib/locale.t failures and the bugs (which have since been fixed) in t/run/locale.t and ext/POSIX/t/posix.t.
Thanks also to Jim Keenan for initiating the smoking of my patches.
And thanks to Karl Williamson for fixing the problem with the lib/locale.t failures, and for pushing the finalised patches to blead.

It's party time over here tonight ... and you're all invited !!

Cheers,
Rob