Re: human interface change?!? [Re: xstrtol.h

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm a little leery of this argument-transposing change:
>
>      xstrtol         The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
>                      are now an option name and option argument
>                      instead of an option argument and a type string,
>
> All callers will have to be updated, else will emit bogus diagnostics.
> But that's not a big deal.

As far as I know, only coreutils uses STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR, so it should
be OK.

> You're welcome to check in the gnulib changes -- assuming no one
> objects -- or I will.

OK, thanks, I checked it into gnulib.  I'll reply in a separate
message about OPT etc.