[PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd-utils: new strtoX helpers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 06:54, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 02:06 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> Simply usage of converting strings to numbers by adding some wrappers
>> around the standard strtoX functions.  These helpers support both hex
>> and dec numbers transparently, and the caller need only provide a ptr
>> to an error integer if they want to be notified of problems.
>
> Why do you need a separate file for this? common.h does not suit this?

the expansion of PROGRAM_NAME causes build errors for programs that do
not define it but include common.h
-mike