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

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Bruno,

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:44:49PM +0100, Bruno Haible 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.  ...
> > 
> > I wonder if there's any legitimate user of that misfeature.
> 
> I don't think there is. Callers who wish to accept a leading '-' sign
> can call strtol() and cast the result to 'unsigned long'.

Yeah.  The only issue with that is not having the full range of
uintmax_t.  But I still think it's a misfeature.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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