Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 04:40:02 GMT From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/134320: strtol: overflow error when it shouldn't be Message-ID: <200905070440.n474e21G075004@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/134320; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To: Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/134320: strtol: overflow error when it shouldn't be
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:46:02 +1000 (EST)
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Yuri wrote:
> main() {
> const char *nptr = "d223d221";
> long l = ::strtol(nptr, NULL, 16);
> printf("l=%x errno=%i err=%s\n", l, errno, strerror(errno));
> }
> ------------------------
>
> It prints: l=7fffffff errno=34 err=Result too large
>
> Why result is too large? 0xd223d221 is a valid representation of a signed 32-bit integer between LONG_MIN=-2,147,483,648(0x80000000) and LONG_MAX=+2,147,483,647(0x7fffffff).
Hex values are non-negative, so they can never give a valid representation
of a negative integer. Here 0xd223d221 is an integer exceeding LONG_MAX.
Bruce
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