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Re: Inline function definitions for isdigit and isxdigit?
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
> For isxdigit, C99 and C11 make a final determination that only '0' … '9', 'a'
> … 'f' and 'A' … 'F' are hexadecimal digits. But POSIX allows more symbolic
> names in the xdigit character class. Much hand-waving is still required to
> make this C99/C11 compliant because the standard only lists 22 hexadecimal
> digits. One could perhaps argue that the additional digits introduced by a
> locale are alternative representations of the six letters.
That would indicate to me that a POSIX issue needs to be raised about the
incompatibility with ISO C.
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Joseph S. Myers
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