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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: dead code, brain dead lilbrary
Message-ID: <2971@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 18 Feb 90 13:05:15 GMT
References: <1990Feb14.204332.24800@caen.engin.umich.edu> <20062@bellcore.bellcore.com> <10294@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <10294@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:

>The proper way to write atoi on the Macintosh is:
>int atoi(StringPtr s) { long i; StringToNum(s, &i); return i; }
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>Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

I can't believe this !

Any sane compiler would complain. If you reurn a long, the
function should be declared long. If you use int, you're wide
open for all kinds of incompatibilities. Int is intended only
for holding "a small integer value", and you can never assume
it can take a value higher than 32767. (Look in the standard)

h+
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