atoi and undefined usage

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Thu May 27 15:55:21 CDT 2004


On Thu, 27 May 2004 22:02:58 +0200, André Johansen wrote:
> Should Wine care about such undefined behaviour?  Currently, it seems
> Wine uses the GNU libc implementation, giving a different result than
> when running in Windows.

Yes, if software depends on it we care ...
 
> (In my case, an IP address was given as a string, and ended up as
> "127.255.255.255" when running in Wine.  I've now fixed that specific
> bug in the source code, but with other programs, that might not be an
> option...)

... and it seems you just proved that some software does depend on it :(

I guess we should copy/paste the libc implementation and hack it to work
the same way Microsofts does.




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