The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of
POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.
These functions shall convert the initial portion of the wide-character string pointed to by nptr to long
and longlong, respectively. First, they shall decompose the input string into three parts:
1. An initial, possibly empty, sequence of white-space wide-character codes (as specified by iswspace())
2. A subject sequence interpreted as an integer represented in some radix determined by the value of
base
3. A final wide-character string of one or more unrecognized wide-character codes, including the
terminating null wide-character code of the input wide-character string
Then they shall attempt to convert the subject sequence to an integer, and return the result.
If base is 0, the expected form of the subject sequence is that of a decimal constant, octal constant, or
hexadecimal constant, any of which may be preceded by a '+' or '-' sign. A decimal constant begins with a
non-zero digit, and consists of a sequence of decimal digits. An octal constant consists of the prefix
'0' optionally followed by a sequence of the digits '0' to '7' only. A hexadecimal constant consists of
the prefix 0x or 0X followed by a sequence of the decimal digits and letters 'a' (or 'A') to 'f' (or 'F')
with values 10 to 15 respectively.
If the value of base is between 2 and 36, the expected form of the subject sequence is a sequence of
letters and digits representing an integer with the radix specified by base, optionally preceded by a '+'
or '-' sign, but not including an integer suffix. The letters from 'a' (or 'A') to 'z' (or 'Z') inclusive
are ascribed the values 10 to 35; only letters whose ascribed values are less than that of base shall be
permitted. If the value of base is 16, the wide-character code representations of 0x or 0X may optionally
precede the sequence of letters and digits, following the sign if present.
The subject sequence is defined as the longest initial subsequence of the input wide-character string,
starting with the first non-white-space wide-character code that is of the expected form. The subject
sequence contains no wide-character codes if the input wide-character string is empty or consists
entirely of white-space wide-character code, or if the first non-white-space wide-character code is other
than a sign or a permissible letter or digit.
If the subject sequence has the expected form and base is 0, the sequence of wide-character codes
starting with the first digit shall be interpreted as an integer constant. If the subject sequence has
the expected form and the value of base is between 2 and 36, it shall be used as the base for conversion,
ascribing to each letter its value as given above. If the subject sequence begins with a <hyphen-minus>,
the value resulting from the conversion shall be negated. A pointer to the final wide-character string
shall be stored in the object pointed to by endptr, provided that endptr is not a null pointer.
In other than the C or POSIX locale, additional locale-specific subject sequence forms may be accepted.
If the subject sequence is empty or does not have the expected form, no conversion shall be performed;
the value of nptr shall be stored in the object pointed to by endptr, provided that endptr is not a null
pointer.
These functions shall not change the setting of errno if successful.
Since 0, {LONG_MIN} or {LLONG_MIN} and {LONG_MAX} or {LLONG_MAX} are returned on error and are also valid
returns on success, an application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to 0, then call
wcstol() or wcstoll(), then check errno.