Hi, I added an MCA parameter and I want the user to apply an Hex value to this parameter (0x...).
In order to do so I needed to change the 'atoi' call in the mca_base_param.c file to 'strtol' call. My question is: Can this code run on all platforms? Index: opal/mca/base/mca_base_param.c =================================================================== --- opal/mca/base/mca_base_param.c (revision 14391) +++ opal/mca/base/mca_base_param.c (working copy) @@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ if (NULL != param->mbp_env_var_name && NULL != (env = getenv(param->mbp_env_var_name))) { if (MCA_BASE_PARAM_TYPE_INT == param->mbp_type) { - storage->intval = atoi(env); + storage->intval = strtol(env,(char**)NULL,0); } else if (MCA_BASE_PARAM_TYPE_STRING == param->mbp_type) { storage->stringval = strdup(env); } @@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ if (0 == strcmp(fv->mbpfv_param, param->mbp_full_name)) { if (MCA_BASE_PARAM_TYPE_INT == param->mbp_type) { if (NULL != fv->mbpfv_value) { - param->mbp_file_value.intval = atoi(fv->mbpfv_value); + param->mbp_file_value.intval = strtol(fv->mbpfv_value,(char**)NULL,0); } else { param->mbp_file_value.intval = 0; } Thanks. Sharon.