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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: code for 32/64 bit strtoul strtol strtoull strtoll
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:24:11 -0700
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Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> writes:
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:48:49 -0700, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
> wrote:
>>Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>> jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
>>>
>>>> Here is the code for the above functions.
>>>
>>> I don't think this conforms in these cases:
>>>
>>>   "0x"
>>>   "0x0"
>>>   "0u"
>>>
>>> The first two are, I think, bugs, but the last is deliberate.  Why do
>>> you accept a suffix on the number?
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>>Because a suffix is permitted when base==0.  N1570 7.22.1.3p3.
>
> 7.22.1.3 is strtod and friends.
>
> 7.22.1.4p3 (my copy dated 12Apr2011) states (emphasis mine)":
>
> "If the value of base is zero, the expected form of the subject
> sequence is that of an integer constant as described in 6.4.4.1,
> optionally preceded by a plus or minus sign, but ****not**** including
> an integer suffix."

Right on both counts; my mistake(s).  That was extraordinarily sloppy of me.

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