Am 24.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Michael Haggerty:
Parsing numbers is not rocket science, but there are a lot of pitfalls,
especially around overflow. It's even harder to write such code via
macros and the result is less readable.
This patch series is mostly about finding a reasonable API and whipping
the callers into shape. That seems ambitious enough for me. I'd rather
stick with boring wrappers for now and lean on strtol()/strtoul() to do
the dirty work. It will be easy for a motivated person to change the
implementation later.
The OpenBSD developers invented strtonum for that. Are you aware of it?
Would it fit? This discussion may be useful:
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-design-of-strtonum
René
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