Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?
Date	2024-06-24 13:19 +0300
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:11:09 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> There's still some ambiguity for strtoull("-9999999999999999999",
> NULL, 10) (that's well outside the range of a 64-bit integer).  For
> that to work as expected, we have to assume that the determination
> that "the correct value is outside the range of representable values"
> happens *before* the negation "is performed in the return type".
> It's not clear that this problem is worth fixing (doing so would
> likely make that section longer and perhaps more confusing).
> 

There is nothing wrong with longer sections.
Personally I would prefer for each strtoxxx() function to have
its own description fully independent of all others. It would make
each of them easier to follow.
DRY is a good principle for programming, not necessarily for writing
Standards.

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