[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/1] seq: arecordmidi: Add num-events option

[Prashant Malani]

Friendly ping. Sounds like Clemens mentioned atoi() should be OK (given his
explanation regarding non-numeric strings, along with consistency with the
rest of the utility).
Are there any other concerns with this patchset?

Thanks once again for taking the time to review.

Best regards,

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:42 PM Prashant Malani <pmalani at chromium.org>
wrote:

> Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out, Clemens.
>
> In any case, I've sent both versions (atoi v/s strtol), so whichever one
> is preferred can be used (would be slightly inclined towards atoi, since
> it's used elsewhere in the file, and because of Clemens' comment;
> additionally, there is less code duplication with the atoi version).
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:19 AM Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
>> > When parsing string with non-numeric characters, the behaviour of
>> > atoi() is undefined still in C11.
>>
>> A completely non-numeric string is specified to return zero.
>>
>> The behaviour is undefined only if the value cannot be represented, i.e.,
>> if it overflows.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clemens
>>
>