From: Eric F. <ef...@ha...> - 2008-05-15 18:00:16
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Michael Droettboom wrote: > Yes, it looks like if it were an "unsigned int", we would have been > okay. That looks like (essentially) what your patch does, but in a C++ > idiom. I'll submit your patch and put a note out to the Windows guys to > help test it. There's a good chance that if it compiles at all, it > should work. Looks like the C idiom would almost have to use something like sscanf(argv[2], "%lu", tmpulong). Is it bad form to use this in C++? Is *anything* actually standardized in C++? How does one know whether something like stringstream is safe to use? The "ask someone to try it" approach is not very reassuring. Eric |