Re: strtonum(3) from OpenBSD?

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 06.08.2009 um 16:49 schrieb Thor Lancelot Simon:

> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:48:39PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > almost everything that has been brought up against having strtonum in
> > libc is present in strsuftoll(x):  it returns long long, it uses a
> > string for error reports, it does not support i18n etc....  So all  
> > the
> > arguments gainst strtonum are somewhat void.
>
> Um, no.  As I said earlier, NetBSD's libc does not need to be the  
> _union_
> of every mistake anyone has ever made in libc in any other Unix-like
> operating sytstem.
>
> It is unquestionably the case that there is bad code in NetBSD.   
> That does
> not in any way go to justify adding more bad code to NetBSD.

Absolutely

> There has been nearly unanimous opposition from other developers to  
> adding
> this particular code to NetBSD's libc.  I suggest that unless core,  
> who are
> the relevant technical management, say it's okay to add, it would  
> really be
> about the time to drop the subject, for now.

I brought it up again more because I think we should find a proper  
solution once and for all.  Sth that is better than what is available  
now, better than strtonum and the strsuftoll and friends functions ;)