Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:02:26 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtol.c strtoll.c strtoq.c strtoul.c strtoull.c strtouq.c Message-ID: <20011128020226.GB15302@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200111280153.RAA02549@windsor.research.att.com> References: <200111280125.RAA02228@windsor.research.att.com> <20011128013902.GC15066@nagual.pp.ru> <200111280153.RAA02549@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 17:53:24 -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: > > >No, there is isalpha() check there. > > Good point. So what's the point of converting base 37 when you > don't have an alphabet that can represent base 37? i.e. for what > value of buf does strtol(buf, &eptr, 37) return 36? There are national digits can appearse up to 255, f.e. > The 36 is not an arbitrary restriction; it's the size of the > alphabet that strto* is willing to accept. Please either > expand the alphabet or put back the restriction. It is bde's idea to revert it back to BSD traditional behaviour (not check base), personally I agree with any variant. See my answer to jhb about that. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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