> Merge conflicts are the gift that just keeps on giving. I deeply sympathize you on this. I see now what you meant on atoi, I suppose I agree. I prefer boost

> Merge conflicts are the gift that just keeps on giving. I deeply sympathize you on this. I see now what you meant on atoi, I suppose I agree. I prefer boost::lexical_cast or rolling my own when performance matters and type safety is in question. I was too harsh in my earlier comment and I see I wrote at least some it in anger and misunderstanding. The fact it is accidental is bad, more compiler warnings should be able to be enabled by default in my opinion that catch this kind of non-sense. I agree it shouldn't be possible to be accidental. I suppose I have had this argument with too many people who see C and C++ as slightly more portable assemblers and grow to rely on specific results of undefined behavior. These people try to defend their right to rely on old and specific undefined behavior. I mistakenly lumped you in with these people incorrectly, please forgive me.