Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:49:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@66h.42h.de> Cc: tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.61L.0504122049090.4031@odem.66h.42h.de> In-Reply-To: <200504121945.j3CJj3Fr006856@cvs.openbsd.org> References: <200504121945.j3CJj3Fr006856@cvs.openbsd.org>
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Theo de Raadt dixit: >> >request that you use intmax_t rather than "long long" for the integers. >> >Then the API scales cleanly when some future processor adds 128-bit ints. >> >Since intmax_t is "long long" on all current platforms that wouldn't >> >cause compatability problems with OpenBSD. >> >> I second that. Cc'd to OpenBSD-Tech. Comments? >If you must deal with octal and hex numbers, do it yourself. This is >not the typical case, and we specially avoid handling them to keep >this simple. You already said that, but what about using intmax_t as return type? //mirabile
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