SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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Comment: clarified "returns 0"

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  • do not need to set errno on an error
  • have undefined behavior if the value of the result cannot be represented (see undefined behavior 113 of Annex J of C99)
  • some implementations return 0 if the string does not represent an integer , (which is indistinguishable from a correctly formatted, zero-denoting input string) but C99 only specifies the behavior of these functions on success.

Compliant Solution (strtol())

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