Re: [PATCH] warning cleared
On 2005-09-22 09:50:22 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> No, you don't, because strtoul() doesn't exist, so no header file
> defines its interface. Including a header doesn't make a symbol
> available at link time. (At link time, it's either there or it
> isn't.) It just helps the compiler check grammar, and the grammer
> checked fine.
Except when you're actually dealing with a macro.
> I'll take Thomas Dickey's word that strtol() is reliably present -- I
> wasn't sure how broadly-implemented it is, having seen strtoul() missing
> so often. Every platform I've used has strtol(), as far as I recall,
> but I haven't seen everything. So Vincent, if you want to submit a
> patch to use strtol(), I won't argue it.
so be it.
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