Re: Another scanf interpretation question

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 01:59

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In article <21624@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
-... strtol and strtoul
- are defined such that they `accept' numbers of the form
-	+
-and
-	-
-(which both convert to the value 0).  ...

No, I don't think so.  A subset of the "expected form" of the subject
sequence is an integer constant according to the rules of 3.1.3.2, and
empty strings do not qualify as valid integer constants.

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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Another scanf interpretation question
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:59:29 GMT
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