strtonum(3) in FreeBSD?

[Thorsten Glaser]

Theo de Raadt dixit:

>> >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?

//mirabile