Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD

[Thorsten Glaser <tg%mirbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

>> At the same time, disallowing a leading '-' sign
>> is a benefit as well. I consider it a misfeature that strtoul() parses
>> "-3" successfully and returns ULONG_MAX-2, which was most certainly
>> not intended by the user.
>
>Agree; it is a misfeature.

What?

From a user’s PoV, this is hugely useful, and many other
read-unsigned-integer-value routines handle this similarily
(of course using whatever range they have) and C also defines
this, so from an implementor’s PoV this is no trouble.

The other user’s PoV thing would be to allow 0x prefixing,
but that needs an entire duplication of the inner loop, so
I can see why people would want to exclude that.

bye,
//mirabilos
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