Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD?
This is a discussion on Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? within the lucky.openbsd.tech forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> > >> >request that you use intmax_t rather than "long long" for the integers. > >> >Then the API ...
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 Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? > >> >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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