Pavel Kankovsky wrote: > (*) The situation when the result appears to be negative because it > is too large to fit into the positive part of a signed type used for > strlen() return value should be considered a bug in strlen()--it > should either use a type able to represent the length of *any* > possible string, or abort when it cannot return a meaningful result > (a dead program is better that a misbehaving program). I think you meant "The situation when the result appears to be negative because it is too large to fit into the positive part of a signed type used for strlen() return value should *NOT* be considered a bug in strlen()" -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope your road is a long one. George Dinwiddie May there be many summer mornings when, gdinwiddieat_private with what pleasure, what joy, http://www.Alberg30.org you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time; from 'Ithaka' by C.P. Cavafy ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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