Implementation errors in strtol()

[Thomas Dickey]

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.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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