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Re: preliminary patch for incorporating internationalizing facilities


On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:09:57AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:13:54 -0400
>>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:
>
>> I don't understand the reason for using strtol rather than
>> atoi either.
>
>I have no reasonable reason.  The current implementation of
>strtol uses locale-depend macros. I wanted to check where strtol
>was used in Cygwin correctly before I dealt with this problem.
>`atoi' disturbed my work at the time, so I hated it and replaced
>it with `strtol'.

Hmm.  Well I don't like the thought of changing something to use
three arguments and a (possibly) slower method of conversion unless
it is really necessary.

cgf

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