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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] atol() bug
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:55:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130311225516.2EF5CB82A@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT." <CAGGHmKGkSnXTb_HAJF4VBX71oqr9fTS+rtskafPSFRiqtkCcbQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> from atof(2):
>
>      BUGS
>           Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers
>           in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI specification.

This BUG is obviously very easy to fix but it hasn't been....
Any good reason for this or just laziness?  Anyway, more cruft
to remember (and debug when porting software).



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-11 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11 22:09 Bakul Shah
2013-03-11 22:44 ` Steven Stallion
2013-03-11 22:55   ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2013-03-11 23:55     ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-12  0:25       ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-12  0:40       ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-12 21:05         ` a

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