behaves in the same way as the standard \texttt{strtoul()} and so it simply
converts negative numbers to unsigned representation instead of rejecting them
(e.g. $-1$ is returned as \texttt{ULONG\_MAX}).
behaves in the same way as the standard \texttt{strtoul()} and so it simply
converts negative numbers to unsigned representation instead of rejecting them
(e.g. $-1$ is returned as \texttt{ULONG\_MAX}).