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Re: Better/more strtol variants
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Olaf van der Spek <ml at vdspek dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Better/more strtol variants
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In general this sort of slight interface improvement is not sufficient
justification to complicate the API with something that duplicates the
functionality of a standards-specified interface. Most applications will
want to use the standard interface for portability anyway (even just to
this year's glibc-based systems, since a new API wouldn't find its way into
wide deployment for at least a year, probably longer).