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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: dead code, brain dead lilbrary
Message-ID: <10294@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 17 Feb 90 01:01:11 GMT
References: <1990Feb14.204332.24800@caen.engin.umich.edu> <20062@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <20062@bellcore.bellcore.com> sdh@flash.UUCP (Stephen D Hawley)
writes:
>Yes, it removes dead code, but the ANSI library is pretty darn stupid when
>it comes to the atomicity of the libraries.

Actually, as I've pointed out, THINK C only removes dead code in
restricted cases --- when project files are used as libraries, and when
an entire source file is unused.  MPW Link removes all unreferenced
routines.

>Ok, quiz question:
>How many of you can write/have written atoi()?

I have.  It was a mistake.  Eventually I threw it away.  You should use
NumToString and StringToNum.  Any "atoi" you write will almost
certainly be unfriendly in international environments.  The one you
gave is.

The proper way to write atoi on the Macintosh is:

int atoi(StringPtr s) { long i; StringToNum(s, &i); return i; }
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
 Religion is the smile on a dog" -- Edie Brickell, "What I Am"