Another scanf interpretation question

[Chris Torek]

In article <21624 at mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote:
>... strtol and strtoul are defined such that they `accept' numbers
>[consisting of only a sign]

Oops: although they return zero, they do not consume the sign, so that
given `strtol("-", &endptr, 0)', *endptr will be '-'.  In effect, they
do not accept numbers consisting of only a sign.

(In other words, the floating point question applies.)
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