rantouan's comments

On: Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

[rantouan]

overflow problems, which I try to avoid, start only if its bigger than int.

So I had assumed that in my case I'm alright. Do you see any change needed that I can't see ?

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Maybe a good idea would had been to go by platform or architecture and use some macros to do the check only if it's really needed. What do you think of it ? How would you implement it ?

You can make a pull request as well.

[eqvinox → rantouan]

If strtol reliably sets errno to ERANGE, you're fine (you'll get a compiler warning for "if (aLong < INT_MIN || aLong > INT_MAX) {" though, because it can never be true.)

I have no idea what the cross-platform reliability of strtol() is, regarding errno. Should be fine, I hope.

On: Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

[rantouan]

not bad, check my suggestion for pull request, above

On: Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

[rantouan]

For the restoring part, could you make a pull request please ? Open source strength is that we work together on things.

On: Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

[rantouan]

hello, errno is set to 0 first thing.

I added now a "/** * * */" separator to make it even more clear.

I don't know, but I like separating things like that, I think it's handy for cases like now that setting the errno was kind of mixed with vars initialization.

```

    errno = 0;

    char *strtolEndptr;
    ...

```

->

```

    errno = 0;

    /*** * * ***/

    char *strtolEndptr;
    ...

```

On: Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

[rantouan]

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libc/index.html : The project website can be found here: https://sourceware.org/glibc

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https://sourceware.org/ Links table on the left -> "GLIBC" button

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https://sourceware.org/glibc/ Top menu -> "sources"

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https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html "gitweb" link

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https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git Top menu -> "tree" link

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https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree Tree -> "stdlib" link

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https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=stdlib;h=93... Tree -> "atoi.c" row -> "raw" link

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https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=stdli...

``` /* Convert a string to an int. / int atoi (const char nptr) { return (int) strtol (nptr, (char *) NULL, 10); } libc_hidden_def (atoi) ```

On: OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

[rantouan]

very good !

On: Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages at once

[rantouan]

voting up because I don't care if the API may be down, it's the idea that matters and the idea is good ! Keep working on it

On: Badgermole is a library for creating an SSH App server for OTP

[rantouan]

Badgermole is a library for creating an SSH App server for OTP (One-Time Passwords) for authenticating requests to HTTP server. This library exists because usernames and passwords are unsafe in this day and age, while other OTP mechanics have become complicated.

On: Dear software engineer: please be flexible

[rantouan]

While coding tends to be rigid, software engineering strives to be flexible. This flexibility is crucial because software engineering acts as the intermediary layer between code and the dynamic real world. In the real world, adaptability is key, and flexible software is more likely to align with the ever-changing demands, unlike rigid counterparts that may quickly become outdated.