From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT."
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References: <20130311220907.46195B82A@mail.bitblocks.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:55:16 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20130311225516.2EF5CB82A@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] atol() bug
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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).