Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:40:33 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Implementation errors in strtol() Message-ID: <20050122124032.GA26006@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20050122113015.GV30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20050121194103.GB19150@nagual.pp.ru> <20050121201400.GQ30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050121221156.GA21459@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120192324.GA30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120205501.GA69123@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120211449.GC30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120214406.GA70088@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120222137.GE30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050121230949.GA34313@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20050122113015.GV30862@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:30:15PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > > Do whatever you want, I think it's silly and should rather be > > > dropped as it is a useless feature, which could only lead people > > > to write unportable code. > > > The code which _not_ expect this feature present is _equally_ > > unportable. > > Nope. Just think about it: code which doesn't take this feature into > account needs to check for conversion errors by means of verifying > endptr. It simply wouldn't care about errno at all, except for That's what I always do - that's the way strtol was first documented. Adding errno tweaks on top of that is (as noted) neither portable nor necessary. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFB8km+tIqByHxlDocRAtiyAJwKL+XkZxsQhfqtXX9X6Kzkmwbw6wCgpRzE 7/bmaZ/raoPWY8/+A4wvPbE= =yf0V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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