Re: sscanf and 0x80000000
Den onsdag den 5. november 2014 08.05.39 UTC+1 skrev Jorgen Grahn:
On Mon, 2014-11-03, Paavo Helde wrote:
Christopher Pisz <nospam@notanaddress.com> wrote in news:m38qic$6ed$1
@dont-email.me:
So, this is confusion from bad documentation
I have found Linux man pages are often more easily readable than other=
variants, and have grown a habit to google, e.g.: man strtoul linux
I still fail to see why anyone wants to use this rather than a stream=
or a lexical_cast. It's so C90.
Is the preference due to performance, plain hatred of streams, or
something else?
The former.
Among other things. strtofoo() has a simple, general interface, so if
you know how to use them, you can use them everywhere.
The only problem I've had is that they need a '\0'-terminated string.
I must admit that I also like iostreams. The concept is fine even if perfor=
mance might stink. But then conversion to/from string do not occur in any p=
erformance sensitive parts of my code. boost::lexical_cast does have very n=
ice performance for the trivial stuff, by the way.
My dislike of strtoX functions is that they do not fit well with templates,=
that they are restricted to conversion from char* and that they have a to =
C-like interface.
/Peter
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