/* Long to ASCII conversion routine - used by print, and those programs * which want to do low level formatted output without hauling in a great * deal of extraneous code. This will convert a long value to an ascii * string in any radix from 2 - 16. * RETURNS - the number of characters in the converted buffer. */ static char digits[] = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f' }; #define BITS_IN_LONG (8*sizeof(long)) int zltoa(long aval, register char *buf, int base) { /* * if unsigned long wont work on your host, you will probably have * to use signed long and accept this as not working for negative * numbers. */ register unsigned long val; register char *p; char tbuf[BITS_IN_LONG]; int size = 0; p = tbuf; *p++ = '\0'; if (aval < 0 && base == 10) { *buf++ = '-'; val = -aval; size++; } else val = aval; do { *p++ = digits[val % base]; } while (val /= base); while ((*buf++ = *--p) != 0) ++size; return(size); }