Re: Strange interval arithmetic

Michael Fuhr wrote:

> Agreed.  I'm thinking about rewriting strtol() calls in datetime.c
> to look like this:
> 
>   errno = 0;
>   val = strtol(field[i], &cp, 10);
>   if (errno == ERANGE)
>       return DTERR_FIELD_OVERFLOW;

Hmm, why not check both the return value _and_ errno:

val = strtol(field[i], &cp, 10);
if (val == LONG_MAX && errno == ERANGE)return DTERR_FIELD_OVERFLOW;

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