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

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=20a user=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s PoV this is no trouble.

The other user=E2=80=99s 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,
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