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

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

>> To address this adoption problem, how about changing these function to
>> generic functions (in the sense of <tgmath.h>)? In such a way that
>>     strtoi (n, &end, base, LONG_MIN, LONG_MAX, &status)
>> is known to return a 'long' rather than 'intmax_t', and
>>     strtoi (n, &end, base, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, &status)

That, and especially=E2=80=A6

>I have designed a better API, through a type-generic macro:
>
>=09int
>=09a2i(typename T, T *restrict n, QChar *s,
>=09    QChar *_Optional *restrict endp, int base,
>=09    T min, T max);
[=E2=80=A6]

=E2=80=A6 this is a nightmare. This effectively will prevent people from
adding that to systems that do not use C2y as primary/only target
yet, and mixing code.

(Besides, a2i is a too generic name.)

bye,
//mirabilos
PS: Please don=E2=80=99t Cc me explicitly on this thread.
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