strtonum(3) in FreeBSD?
Theo de Raadt
deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org
Tue Apr 12 14:11:56 PDT 2005
> >> >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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