From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:49:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] numparse module: systematically tighten up integer parsing
Message-ID: <551195B6.9040402@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <55118B74.1030201@alum.mit.edu>

Am 24.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> Parsing numbers is not rocket science, but there are a lot of pitfalls,
> especially around overflow. It's even harder to write such code via
> macros and the result is less readable.
>
> This patch series is mostly about finding a reasonable API and whipping
> the callers into shape. That seems ambitious enough for me. I'd rather
> stick with boring wrappers for now and lean on strtol()/strtoul() to do
> the dirty work. It will be easy for a motivated person to change the
> implementation later.

The OpenBSD developers invented strtonum for that.  Are you aware of it? 
  Would it fit?  This discussion may be useful:

	http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/the-design-of-strtonum

René