Inline function definitions for isdigit and isxdigit?

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Sep 16 17:13:00 GMT 2016


On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:

> For isxdigit, C99 and C11 make a final determination that only '0' … '9', 'a'
> … 'f' and 'A' … 'F' are hexadecimal digits.  But POSIX allows more symbolic
> names in the xdigit character class.  Much hand-waving is still required to
> make this C99/C11 compliant because the standard only lists 22 hexadecimal
> digits.  One could perhaps argue that the additional digits introduced by a
> locale are alternative representations of the six letters.

That would indicate to me that a POSIX issue needs to be raised about the 
incompatibility with ISO C.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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