Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:16:56 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Implementation errors in strtol() Message-ID: <20050123211656.GB64754@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050123143024.GA28604@gothmog.gr> References: <20050121221156.GA21459@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120192324.GA30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120205501.GA69123@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120211449.GC30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050120214406.GA70088@nagual.pp.ru> <20050120222137.GE30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050121230949.GA34313@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20050122113015.GV30862@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20050122171743.GB39943@nagual.pp.ru> <20050123143024.GA28604@gothmog.gr>
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:30:24PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Why would checking for explicit errno values be necessary? IIRC, after > a few emails I had exchanged with Dima Dorfman a few months ago, > checking for endptr *and* errno != 0 was ok. _Portable_ application must suppose that not all OSes are POSIX conformant, so it can't be sure what errno comes from strtol(), it is why explicit checking for known value is needed. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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