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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtoimax.c strtol.c strtoll.c
 strtoul.c strtoull.c strtoumax.c
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:15:54AM -0800, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>ache        2001/12/02 01:15:54 PST
>
>  Modified files:
>    lib/libc/stdlib      strtoimax.c strtol.c strtoll.c strtoul.c 
>                         strtoull.c strtoumax.c 
>  Log:
>  Make it works for non ASCII compatible encodings too.
>  The only assumption left is that 'A'..'Z' 'a'..'z' both are contiguous

AFAIK, the most widely used non-ASCII encoding is EBCDIC - in which
'A'..'Z' and 'a'..'z' are non-contiguous - 'z'-'a' == 40.  (The low
nybble only takes the values 1..9 - hence the "BCD" in the name).

The new code is no worse than the old code in this respect, and it's
unlikely that FreeBSD will ever be ported to an EBCDIC environment,
but "works for non ASCII compatible encodings" may mislead someone
hoping to borrow the code.

Peter

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