From 731fa21e8c60ec762ad54d4150dba02e867cf960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwidgets.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:44:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] clarified ToULong() behaviour with negative numbers

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@35465 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex
index 0a4ff10b73..c1bf614b3f 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxstring.tex
@@ -1045,7 +1045,10 @@ familiar with C) results.
 Attempts to convert the string to an unsigned integer in base {\it base}.
 Returns {\tt true} on success in which case the number is stored in the
 location pointed to by {\it val} or {\tt false} if the string does not
-represent a valid number in the given base.
+represent a valid number in the given base. Please notice that this function
+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}).
 
 See \helpref{wxString::ToLong}{wxstringtolong} for the more detailed
 description of the {\it base} parameter.
-- 
2.50.0

