On 2010-04-14, at 08:45, Dave Hart wrote: > My eyebrow raised at the leading zero as well, but I'd call it > ambiguous. 0x14 is unambiguously decimal 20, but 014 is only > unambiguous in a context that defines leading zero as implying octal. Note that such a context is inet_ntoa(), at least on BSD-based machines I have handy.