Re: [PATCH v1] Remove 'restrict' from 'nptr' in strtol(3)-like functions

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On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 20:28, Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 06:30:50PM GMT, Martin Uecker wrote:
> > Am Freitag, dem 05.07.2024 um 17:24 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Wakely:
> > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 17:02, Xi Ruoyao via Gcc <gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 17:53 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > > > At least, I hope there's consensus that while current GCC doesn't warn
> > > > > about this, ideally it should, which means it should warn for valid uses
> > > > > of strtol(3), which means strtol(3) should be fixed, in all of ISO,
> > > > > POSIX, and glibc.
> > > >
> > > > It **shouldn't**.  strtol will only violate restrict if it's wrongly
> > > > implemented, or something dumb is done like "strtol((const char*) &p,
> > > > &p, 0)".
> > > >
> > > > See my previous reply.
>
> That's not right.  See my reply to yours, Xi.  The restrict in
>
>         char **endptr
>
> already prevents calls such as strtol(x, x, 0).

That seems to contradict footnote 153 in C23.




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