[PATCH v2] wayland-util: added wl_strtol/wl_strtoul utility functions

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 12:43:01 PDT 2014


On 10/22/2014 02:13 AM, Marek Chalupa wrote:

> What I'm wondering is what should be the behavior of wl_strtoul for
> negative numbers?
> strtoul silently converts them, but I don't think this is what we always
> want... or is it?

-1 is a handy shortcut for strtoul to get all the bits turned on and get 
the maximum possible value.

Not sure if other negative numbers are much use though.


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