Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes: > I always felt the strtol signature was massively broken because of > that.
Probably a legacy of K&R C which didn't have function prototypes or const. Very few people parse truly const memory so it is usually legitimate to write to 'end'. In ISO C with both const and non-const 'end' there is going to be a cast in the user code somewhere. I guess not breaking legacy code won. In our code we could change the function signature from 'char **end' to 'int *count' and avoid the cast. -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
