Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:57:53 -0800 From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Implementation errors in strtol() Message-ID: <20050120215753.GF54711@0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20050120214406.GA70088@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20050120192324.GA30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120205501.GA69123@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120211449.GC30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120214406.GA70088@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Jan 21, Andrey Chernov wrote: > In general please don't forget that strtol(), atol() etc. supposed to > parse user input and _detect_ syntax errors, it is their purpose. If they > not do it or do it in half, each program forced to use its own parser > instead. If you want to be sure about your interpretation of the standard, you could inquire on comp.lang.c. I'm sure you will get a complete answer on that forum. -Clint
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