On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 07:40:33AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > 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. The story not ends here. After checking endptr you should check for overflow, and there you need to consider both cases. See my detailed reply to Joerg. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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