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

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

>> 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.

The other issue is that -LONG_MAX-1 may not exist in the
signed data type (in ISO C, even with two=E2=80=99s complement now
prescribed).

Unlikely to matter in the POSIX case, of course.

bye,
//mirabilos
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