From: Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 03:13:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that ap_strtol should only really
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Document that ap_strtol should only really
be used with bases <19 because of EBCDIC.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x@95755 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/src/ap/ap_strtol.c b/src/ap/ap_strtol.c
index dfa865c4b1f..2a639af603c 100644
--- a/src/ap/ap_strtol.c
+++ b/src/ap/ap_strtol.c
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@
  *
  * Assumes that the upper and lower case
  * alphabets and digits are each contiguous.
+ * As such, this will break on EBCDIC machines
+ * if base is >19. The highest we use is 16
+ * so we're OK, but you are warned!
  */
 
 API_EXPORT(long) ap_strtol(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base)