Re: In regard of commit "gudev: Use strtoul to parse unsigned 64-bit integers"

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 04:32:07PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Perhaps I'm simply misreading something, but won't going from strtoll to
>> > strtoul break things for 32bit case ?
>>
>> What do you think it would break? Or are you perhaps suggesting we
>> should be using strtoull() instead? Please be specific.
>>
> Well, given on what happens on strtoul overflow according to the
> manpage...

Well, the problem was simply that I just missed an 'l' in the initial
patch and that mistake breaks 32-bit as you tried to point out. The
patch I just sent fixes the problem. Sigh, this is what happens when
people try to make their function names as short as possible... never
a good idea.

    David
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