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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:05:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-24, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2024-06-24, Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>>> If the negation, which is a positive value, cannot be represented in the
>>> type, that implies it is out of range. The required behavior for a
>>> positive out-of-range value is to return LLONG_MAX and set errno to
>>> ERANGE.
>>
>> Errr, what am I saying! The negation, which is a negative value,
>> cannot be represented in the type, so the required behavior is to
>> return LLONG_MIN and set errno to negative.
>
> You mean "and set errno to ERANGE".

Once you screw up and start correcting yourself, there is no end
to the long tail of erors.

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