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From: scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re*2: an elementary question concerning double indirection
Keywords: strtol
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.121845.19526@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 90 12:18:45 GMT
References: <8146@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1458@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> <1990Feb27.110204.1415@uwasa.fi>
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In article <1990Feb27.110204.1415@uwasa.fi> fs@uwasa.fi (Filip Sawicki LAKE) writes:
>
>According to the SUN manual, strtod returns ptr==string if string is 
>completely inconvertible, otherwise ptr points to the first wrong character.

Beware!  I used strtol() on 2.2.1 RT AIX and found that the returned pointer
from the string "\n\0" pointed to the *null*, not the newline.  The code
affected had been ported to a number of environments and AIX was the only
one thus afflicted.

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