Re: strtonum(3) from OpenBSD?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:21:40PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
 > > These are not equivalent if errno might contain a trap representation
 > > for non-LONG_MAX returns.  (Because of strtol()'s special case for
 > > errno, this can happen only if it was that way on entry.)
 > 
 > What exactly do you mean by "trap representation" in this context --
 > that's not normal terminology I'm aware of for the _C_ Programming
 > Language.  It's certainly not something that applies to ISO C89 or ISO
 > C90 so far as I can find.

Try the C standard, also known as "C99".

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David A. Holland
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