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Sharlin 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: No way to parse integers in C (2022)

And how does this avoid returning nonsense if the number is too large? (Wrapping if the accumulator is unsigned, straight to UB land if signed.) Not reporting overflows as errors is one of the major problems demonstrated by TFA.

voidUpdate 34 days ago [–]

you could check if ret > ret * 10 + characters[i]-48, if so it has wrapped around and you return an error

thomashabets2 34 days ago | [–]

For unsigned that could work, but signed overflow is UB.

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