On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 04:43:20PM +1100, David Hodson <hodsond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> the value to check is loaded into a (signed) int variable, and strtol()
> The easy workaround is to search for a four-byte string value instead.
It would occur to me that the real problem is strtol overflowing. Why does
strtol overflow at all? POSIX requires strtol to be able to convert _all_
long values.
Would specifying the right (signed) constant help?
If you think all this should be documented somewhere, then you are
definitely right ;)
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