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Mention that stroul() et al *do* accept negative numbers, they

just (effectively) cast to unsigned.  ho@ OK
OPENBSD_3_4
millert 22 years ago
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.12 2003/03/06 18:19:26 kjell Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.13 2003/04/21 21:49:40 millert Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 25, 1992
.Dt STRTOUL 3
@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ The conversion is done according to the given
.Fa base ,
which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive
or the special value 0.
If the string in
.Fa nptr
represents a negative number, it will be converted to its unsigned equivalent.
This behavior is consistent with what happens when a signed integer type is
cast to its unsigned counterpart.
.Pp
The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace
(as determined by


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