Re: Conversion of strings to numbers and numbers to strings.

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On May 30, 2006, at 12:04, David Jones wrote:
> By the way, I was surprised by the result of
>
> return '-0x1' + 0
>
> I was even more surprised when it gave a different answer on my 
> PowerPC OS X machine (where it gives -1) than on an Intel Windows XP 
> machine (where it gives 4294967295).

This turns out to be because on OS X strtod handles the conversion of 
'-0x1', for which we can thank C99, and on Windows (I assume) strtoul 
handles the conversion of '-0x1'.  I find the whole situation rather 
repellant.

drj