On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:36:38 +0100, Giorgos Keramidas <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:46:47 -0500, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What about this patch? I incorporated your feedback so I am not going
>> to reply inline.
>
> Since the pattern of converting strings to int-derivative values appears
> multiple times, I'd probably prefer something like a new function that
> does the parsing *and* error-checking, to avoid duplication of errno
> checks, invalidchar checks, and so on, e.g. something like this near the
> top of rtprio.c:
>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <limits.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> /*
> * Parse an integer from 'string' into 'value'. Return the first
> * invalid character in 'endp', if endp is non-NULL. The return value
> * of parseint is 0 on success, -1 for any parse error.
> */
>
> int
> parseint(const char *string, const char **endp, int base, int *value)
> {
> long x;
>
> errno = 0;
> x = strtol(string, endp, base);
> if (errno != 0 || endp == str || (endp != NULL &&
> endp != str && *endp != '\0' && (isdigit(*endp) == 0 ||
> isspace(*endp) != 0)))
> return -1;
> if (x >= INT_MAX) {
> errno = ERANGE;
> return -1;
> }
> return (int)x;
> }
instead of `return (int)x' the last bits should be slightly different,
of course:
if (value != NULL)
*value = (int)x;
return 0;
}
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