the difference of pointers is a signed type ptrdiff_t; if it is only
32-bit, left-shifting it by 30 bits produces undefined behavior. cast
the difference to an appropriate unsigned type, uint32_t, before
shifting to avoid this.
the a64l function is specified to return a signed 32-bit result in
type long. as noted in the bug report by Ed Schouten, converting
implicitly from uint32_t only produces the desired result when long is
a 32-bit type. since the computation has to be done in unsigned
arithmetic to avoid overflow, simply cast the result to int32_t.
further, POSIX leaves the behavior on invalid input unspecified but
not undefined, so we should not take the difference between the
potentially-null result of strchr and the base pointer without first
checking the result. the simplest behavior is just returning the
partial conversion already performed in this case, so do that.
Rich Felker