On 15.09.2010 21:03, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:02:52PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: >> On 10.09.2010 15:26, Stefan Sperling wrote: >>> I know we're using C89, but maybe it's time to move on and upgrade to C99 >>> where the benefits are desirable? When Subversion was started, C89 was about >>> a decade old, and C99 is just as old now... >> Microsoft's C compiler, to name only one, still does not provide most of >> the C99 features. I don't know about standard library support. >> >> However, I don't see where you gain with using strtol(). First of all, >> it was already in C89 and has effectively the same interface as the APR >> conversions. C99 added strtoll() but it has the same interface. What's >> the benefit? > Raising this thread again, because there is a benefit to using strtol()'s > unsigned cousin, strtoul(). APR does not provide an interface for it. > Can we use it? Can we also use its 64-bit cousin strtoull()? If we can use > those two, we might as well use strtol() and strtoul() and skip apr_strtoi64() > completely.
You'd still have to provide an alternate implementation for all the environments that do not provide this function. I think there may be one with a different spelling in Microsoft's C runtime, but haven't looked in a while ... -- Brane
