Re: GScanner, strtol() and int64

[Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:47:20AM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> it's not clear to me what the best solution would be,
> so i'd like to hear people's opinions on this.

	The union additions and the strtoul(3) update are no brainers.
I use strtoul(3) in all my number parsing code.
	u64 work is expensive on x86, but I guess that doesn't matter
given this context.  For portability's sake, I'd really like to see a
g_ascii_strtoull() and a g_ascii_strtoul().  Why both?  Because then
strtoul() is always there without having to do strtoull() (outside of
GScanner).
	If anyone is worried about the cost of strtoull() inside
GScanner (I'm not) we could even add a GScanner option maybe to switch.
That might not be binary compatible.

Joel
	
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