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| From | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | muc.lists.netbsd.tech.misc |
| Subject | Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD |
| Date | 2025-03-19 12:27 -0700 |
| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <e42cfaa9-0756-45ea-a54e-31297200e3c0@cs.ucla.edu> (permalink) |
| References | <> <3237498.fEcJ0Lxnt5@nimes> |
On 2025-03-18 17:15, Bruno Haible wrote: > If you don't want to do that, I can only repeat what I said in the previous > mail: The proposal*does not achieve the goal* of avoiding the most common > programmer mistakes. For a robust API, the success test should*only* involve > testing the returned 'status', nothing else. This was my initial reaction as well. Although strtol has real problems, the proposed interface is even more complicated and confusing and I suspect that in practice it'd be misused even more often than strtol is. I suggest starting from scratch. In particular, use a functional style, with no side effects (no pointers-to-results). Just return the result you want, as a struct, and keep the struct simple. Two struct components should suffice: the scanned numeric value and a success/error indicator. -- Posted automagically by a mail2news gateway at muc.de e.V. Please direct questions, flames, donations, etc. to news-admin@muc.de
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Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-18 23:43 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> - 2025-03-19 01:15 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 16:26 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 19:48 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 19:56 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> - 2025-03-19 22:59 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - 2025-03-19 12:27 -0700
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> - 2025-03-19 16:56 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 17:25 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> - 2025-03-19 17:36 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 17:53 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> - 2025-03-19 18:35 +0100
Re: alx-0008 - Standardize strtoi(3) and strtou(3) from NetBSD Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> - 2025-03-19 19:01 +0100
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