Re: +vsprintf-reuse-almost-identical-simple_strtoulx-functions.patch added to-mm tree

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:32:06PM -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The difference between simple_strtoul() and simple_strtoull() is just
> the size of the variable used to keep track of the sum of characters
> converted to numbers:
> 
> unsigned long simple_strtoul() {...}
> unsigned long long simple_strtoull(){...}

> Overflow condition is not checked on both functions,

and we should start doing it and remove strict_* idiocy.
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