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A turning point for GNU libcA turning point for GNU libcPosted Mar 29, 2012 10:37 UTC (Thu) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)In reply to: A turning point for GNU libc by slashdot Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc
D'oh! You're quite right about atoi(). I meant strtol(), but wasn't thinking straight. strtol() allows you to optionally specify the base=10, but then won't permit 0x... for hexadecimal.
I agree that we can't change it right away. That's why I suggest adding a new prefix, "0o" to be used in the very rare case where the programmer deliberately intends to use octal. That wouldn't break anything, and over perhaps 5 years, people could migrate.
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