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From: Eric Sosman <Eric DOT Sosman AT sun DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fibonacci number
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:01:15 -0500
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CBFalconer wrote:
> [...]
> BTW the following shows up a glitch in DJGPP 2.03 system.  Calling
> the program with an argument of -1 returns the overflow condition,
> because strtoul returns ULONG_MAX rather than 0.  Cross-posted to
> comp.os.msdos.djgpp for this.
> [...]
>       n = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 10);

    If you mean that strtoul("-1", NULL, 10) returns ULONG_MAX,
then there's no bug: that's what it is supposed to do.  See
the Standard, section 7.20.1.4 paragraph 3, and note the text
"optionally preceded by a plus or minus sign."

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