Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: pull base-guessing logic to helper function

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:22:02 -0700
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a small behavior change in this patch, previously, when
> no base was specified and the string began with 0x? the base would
> be guessed as 8, unless isxdigit(?) was true.  This would then return
> 0 as 'x' was larger than 8.  Now, the base is always guessed as 16 if
> the string starts with '0x'

hm.  I'd call that a bugfix.
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