Fix PR#5479

git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/trunk@12031 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02

Changes

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Feature wishes:
 - PR#5454: Digest.compare is missing and md5 doc update
 - PR#5467: no extern "C" into ocaml C-stub headers
 - PR#5478: ocamlopt assumes ar command exists
+- PR5479: Num.num_of_string may raise an exception, not reflected in the documentation.
 
 Shedding weight:
 * Removed the obsolete native-code generators for Alpha, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS.

otherlibs/num/num.mli

@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ val approx_num_exp : int -> num -> string
    first argument is the number of digits in the mantissa. *)
 
 val num_of_string : string -> num
-(** Convert a string to a number. *)
+(** Convert a string to a number.
+   Raise [Failure "num_of_string"] if the given string is not
+   a valid representation of an integer *)
 
 (** {6 Coercions between numerical types} *)