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In article <danpop.824406631@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
|> In <4ftn81$5sv@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:

|> Only a fool could think something like this.  atoi (which is a
|> standard C function, no double quotes required) converts a string
|> to an int, as its name says: Ascii-TO-Int.  Got it?

Yup.  Guess what?  On two of the most popular unix platforms, Solaris
2.3 and HPUX 9, the function is _not_ atoi().  That's why I asked.

|> This is precisely why clever programmers choose the ANSI C solution
|> whenever possible (sprintf in this case).

sprintf() means linking in the whole stdio library; 50K for a 150-byte
function.  Can you say code bloat?

|> BTW, neither lltostr nor ltoa are part of any Unix standard that I
|> know of.  If you use vendor-specific extensions, you get what you
|> deserve.

atoi() is implemented in _neither_ Solaris 2.3 nor HPUX 9.

Chris
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