[Various] libc/1864: strtol does not return 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF00FF when fed "0xFFFFFFFFFFFF00FF"

[Geoff Keating]

> Cc: "Eamon Hughes." <eh@adv.sonybpe.com>, eamon@sonyoxford.co.uk
> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
> Date: 21 Aug 2000 17:38:07 +0200

> We've received the appended bug report.  Can anybody clarify this,
> please?
> 
> If I understand this correctly, the basic question is whether strtol
> handles:
> Numbers > 0x8000000000000000 as a negative number - or not.

It should not.  It's easy to tell negative numbers in inputs to
strtol, they start with a '-'.

> Btw. this works with strtoul. 

That would be a bug (depending on your system).  0xFFFFFFFFFFFF00FF
isn't representable as an unsigned long except on 64-bit systems.

> I've added this as a testcase to
> tst-strtol and tst-strtoll.  Please tell me if the tests cases are
> correct (in this case the report is wrong) - or wrong and we need to
> fix strtol/strtoll.

I believe your testcase is right.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>