Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:14:07 -0600 From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@66h.42h.de> Cc: tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200504122114.j3CLE7Ea013181@cvs.openbsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:49:39 -0000." <Pine.BSO.4.61L.0504122049090.4031@odem.66h.42h.de>
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> >> >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? No.
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