From -3074550306597158730 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1d1109cd86668825 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:10:56 -0500 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu From: "Manfred von Willich" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: strtol const-ness problem Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1155929183.497287.148020@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> References: <1155392893.026182.121030@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1155445528.956928.185450@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1155587670.517846.8770@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1155831490.815495.178280@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 jnb-cache03 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.2P1D1) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=196.2.124.252; posting-account=-jwj-g0AAACu3nsHKYmkS99-PGr4etoj X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Relay+Sender autoqualified); processed by UCSD_GL-v2.1 on mailbox7.ucsd.edu; Fri, 18 August 2006 12:26:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Spamscanner: mailbox7.ucsd.edu (v1.6 Jul 6 2006 16:38:12, 0.0/5.0 3.1.3) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 14758 k7IJQVCL018802 mailbox7.ucsd.edu) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:06:49 CST Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.182.171.162 X-Trace: sv3-uQZzKQopLpC6VYNpYLx9uRKbBpLF/6TwLzlzAIJHlrIBQobnFgNBpTz+njIRermBvmZjC/mbw9IaROu!t42d4EWK9attU7gI9tUUKTFZ1V2tTaucmMCQKqKXH0o3hV22TLGcouRZCBokcYn2Q/VIVEz3VovX!gvsAoCDKpwgUU7/T0UlZV+gBzLfb28gd5L0RDTGHWg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:3381 kanze wrote: [snip] > The provided signature is that of C; your evaluation for C is > correct, because there is no possibility of overloading. In > most cases, where C did such things, C++ has provided the > overloads. Including in the headers. > > As I said, I think that this is just a case of oversight, and > that a defect report, made quickly enough, would see it > corrected in the next version of the standard. I'm glad this is the case (also suggested by Heinz in his responses). I'm glad to have stimulated discussion on dstevel's original query, but not being a committee member, I wouldn't know much about either writing up or submitting a DR, let alone what the actual state of the standard is. Can anyone with flying hours take this up? Manfred --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]