On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:30:15PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > > Do whatever you want, I think it's silly and should rather be > > > dropped as it is a useless feature, which could only lead people > > > to write unportable code. > > > The code which _not_ expect this feature present is _equally_ > > unportable. > > Nope. Just think about it: code which doesn't take this feature into > account needs to check for conversion errors by means of verifying > endptr. It simply wouldn't care about errno at all, except for That's what I always do - that's the way strtol was first documented. Adding errno tweaks on top of that is (as noted) neither portable nor necessary. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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