Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Ok, this is now implemented:

> +DEFUN ("string-numeric-lessp", Fstring_numeric_lessp,

Replete with tests.  Feel free to change the name, implementation, or
anything else.  :-)

Particularly this:

> +      /* If we're still in a number, add it to the sum and continue. */
> +      /* FIXME: Integer overflow? */
> +      if (c >= '0' && c <= '9')
> +	{
> +	  number = number * 10;
> +	  number += c - '0';
> +	  (*isp)++;
> +	  (*isp_byte) += chlen;
> +	}
> +      else
> +	break;
> +    }

There has to be a simple way to do that check...  hm...  I see that
`string-to-number' uses strtoumax...  Hm...  perhaps I can rewrite this
function to use that instead...

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