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Re: [PATCH] xstrtol: ensure errno is reset


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xstrtol: ensure errno is reset
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:40:51 +0000
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On 31/12/14 15:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> strtol is documented to return ERANGE in certain cases,
>> and the coreutils xdectoint wrapper uses and sets errno
>> to give more accurate diagnostics.
> 
> Sure, but this is xstrtol, not strtol.  xstrtol returns its error indicator 
> as a 
> strtol_error value.  It would be weird to insist that xstrtol must also set 
> errno.  If there's some finer-grained error indication that xdectoint needs 
> from 
> xstrtol, this should be fixed by adding new values to enum strtol_error.

Fair point.  What we have now works well though, so I'm not on for changing 
immediately at least.
To make it more consistent would be a more invasive change, with probably the 
refactoring of
xstrtol_error() to something more general, and then using that after all 
xstrtol callers in coreutils etc.

>>> Second, can't isspace set errno and won't this cause problems?
>>
>> That would be surprising.
> 
> I've been surprised before.  :-)  Perhaps isspace, the first time it's 
> called, 
> reads a table from somewhere.

thanks,
Pádraig.




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