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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-04-21 21:49:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-04-21 21:49:41 +0000 |
| commit | 14ccc91b261d7370d1813e29d9a2bb02e2fe139f (patch) | |
| tree | 1ee20cfb0cc501182fa9efcc3979496c084e21f1 | |
| parent | a4996b8ebe26d26a7497ebf71caef0c0e712f530 (diff) | |
Mention that stroul() et al *do* accept negative numbers, they
just (effectively) cast to unsigned. ho@ OK
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 index fd6a235309f..0e804ec3f9e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.12 2003/03/06 18:19:26 kjell Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.13 2003/04/21 21:49:40 millert Exp $ .\" .Dd June 25, 1992 .Dt STRTOUL 3 @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ The conversion is done according to the given .Fa base , which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive or the special value 0. +If the string in +.Fa nptr +represents a negative number, it will be converted to its unsigned equivalent. +This behavior is consistent with what happens when a signed integer type is +cast to its unsigned counterpart. .Pp The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace (as determined by |