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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:53:14 +0300
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:28:39 +0300
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:58:01 -0000 (UTC)
> gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, now I get it.  You really only need strtoimax() and
> > strtoumax(). 
> 
> Which are? uunfortunately, not part of C standard.
> 
> > A result of any smaller type can be obtained by calling one of these
> > functions and storing the result in an object of the smaller type.
> >   
> 
> Or check for range and handle out of range values as appropriate by
> situation.
> 
> 

BTW, I don't know what The Standard says about out-of-range inputs, but
at least https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strtol does not
say anything certain. especially about what stored in *str_end.