strtoul question

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <UaLHQb200as9AS60EP at andrew.cmu.edu> ghoti+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Adam Stoller) writes:
>What exactly (if one can use that term) is the strtoul() function
>supposed to return when handed a string like "-987654" ?

It's supposed to return ULONG_MAX + 1 - 987654.

As I mentioned in my posting about results of the NYC X3J11 meeting,
strtoul() overflow can occur only on conversion of the magnitude,
not on the negation phase of the conversion.