On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Mike Breuer wrote: > 1. negative numbers in the mob file would have to be converted to > their unsigned equivalent, or the files will break (not a problem in > the stock code, but a problem for people already hitting this > limitation). Negative numbers never worked to begin with. If they changed it to work right, then the patch wouldn't make a difference for them. > 2. Since numbers like 2149580808 are out of range for a signed long, the > behavior of atol (called when parsing values out of the file) is undefined. I > don't know of an unsigned equivalent to atol. strtoul(). -- Daniel A. Koepke (dak), dkoepke@circlemud.org Caveat emptor: I say what I mean and mean what I say. Listen well. Caveat venditor: Say what you mean, mean what you say. Say it well. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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