Markus Hoenicka markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote:
I've had a look at libdbi-driver's current ato*() usage. As far as I
can see it is used only to turn raw row data into integers by
functions which do not return values, i.e. without an easy way to
indicate conversion errors. I haven't
Devin Reade writes:
The ato* are indeed often implemented in terms of strto*. The problem
is that the ato* signature just doesn't lend itself to error
checks, so even if they wrap strto*, error information gets lost in
the wrapper layer.
What about the portability of the strto*
Vikram Noel Ambrose wrote:
I can't seem to read back BIGINT UNSIGNED (8bytes) from a mysql database.
For example:
A value of 10988581603938712255 = 0x987F48BFB028BABF
is returned as 9223372036854775807 = 0x7FFF
Something somewhere is capping off my BIGINT UNSIGNED to the
Markus Hoenicka markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote:
To better deal with your shock: Could you please elaborate what's
wrong with atoll()?
In the particular case of this use in libdbi, I've not looked at the
code to see to what extent it is an *actual* problem; however as a
generalization, I
