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This compliant example uses the Linux {{scanf()}} implementation's built in error handling to validate input. On Linux platforms, {{scanf()}} sets {{errno}} to {{ERANGE}} if the result of integer conversion cannot be represented within the size specified by the format string \[[Linux Programmer's Manual08|AA. C References#Linux 0708]\]. Note that this is a platform dependent solution. Therefore, this should only be used where portability is not a concern.

\[[Klein 02|AA. C References#Klein 02]\]
\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.1.4, "The strtol, strtoll, strtoul, and strtoull functions," and Section 7.19.6, "Formatted input/output functions"
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 192|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/192.html], "Integer Coercion Error"; and [CWE ID 197|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/197.html], "Numeric Truncation Error"
\[[Linux Programmer's Manual08|AA. C References#Linux 07]\08]\] [scanf(3)|http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/strtok.3.html]