from atof(2):
BUGS
Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers
in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI specification.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Bakul Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
> The atol() manpage says:
>
> Atoi and atol recognize an optional string of tabs and
> spaces, then an optional sign, then a string of decimal dig-
> its.
>
> And yet atol(x) acts exactly like strol(x, nil, 0). This makes
> it unnecessarily incompatible with the unix version. Ditto
> for atoll(). My preference would be to fix the code and not
> the man page.
>
>
