Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?

In article <20240620154213.917@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
...

If strtol didn't exist today, making it necessary to invent it or
something like it, that function should use the intmax_t type.
Then there wouldn't be any need to add new variants going forward.

There actually is.

STRTOIMAX(3)               Linux Programmer's Manual              STRTOIMAX(3)



NAME
       strtoimax, strtoumax - convert string to integer

SYNOPSIS
       #include <inttypes.h>

       intmax_t strtoimax(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);
       uintmax_t strtoumax(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);

DESCRIPTION
       These  functions  are  just  like strtol(3) and strtoul(3), except that
       they return a value of type intmax_t and uintmax_t, respectively.

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