Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] git-compat-util: add strtoi_with_tail()

> From: Mohit Marathe <mohitmarathe23@gmail.com>
>
> This function is an updated version of strtol_i() function. It will
> give more control to handle parsing of the characters after the
> numbers and better error handling while parsing numbers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mohit Marathe <mohitmarathe@proton.me>
> ---
>  git-compat-util.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
> index 7c2a6538e5a..c576b1b104f 100644
> --- a/git-compat-util.h
> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
> @@ -1309,6 +1309,29 @@ static inline int strtol_i(char const *s, int base, int *result)
>  	return 0;
>  }

> +#define strtol_i(s,b,r) strtoi_with_tail((s), (b), (r), NULL)
> +static inline int strtoi_with_tail(char const *s, int base, int *result, char **endp)
> +{
> +	long ul;
> +	char *dummy = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!endp)
> +		endp = &dummy;
> +	errno = 0;
> +	ul = strtol(s, endp, base);
> +	if (errno ||
> +	    /*
> +	     * if we are told to parse to the end of the string by
> +	     * passing NULL to endp, it is an error to have any
> +	     * remaining character after the digits.
> +	     */
> +	   (dummy && *dummy) ||
> +	    *endp == s || (int) ul != ul)
> +		return -1;
> +	*result = ul;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  void git_stable_qsort(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size,
>  		      int(*compar)(const void *, const void *));
>  #ifdef INTERNAL_QSORT