On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:55:53PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Mar 11 18:56:04 EDT 2013, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > from atof(2): > > > > > > BUGS > > > Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers > > > in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI specification. > > > > This BUG is obviously very easy to fix but it hasn't been.... > > Any good reason for this or just laziness? Anyway, more cruft > > to remember (and debug when porting software). > > there is a deep-seated assumption on the system that strtou?ll? accept > hex and octal. the fact that it's in the BUG section rather than fixed > means there are good reasons for not fixing it. > > if you were to make this change, i would be surprised if you could > boot your kernel. > > - erik >
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