atol() v/s. strtol()

Question

What is the difference between atol() & strtol()?

According to their man pages, they seem to have the same effect as well as matching arguments:

Answer 1

The man page of strtol gives the following:

ERRORS
   EINVAL (not in C99) The given base contains an unsupported value.
   ERANGE The resulting value was out of range.
   The implementation may also set errno to EINVAL in case no conversion was performed (no digits seen, and 0 returned).

The following code checks for range errors. (Modified Eli's code a bit)

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main()
{
   errno = 0;
   char* end = 0;
   long res = strtol("83459299999999999K997", &end, 10);

   if(errno != 0)
   {
      printf("Conversion error, %s\n", strerror(errno));
   }
   else if (*end)
   {
      printf("Converted partially: %i, non-convertible part: %s\n", res, end);
   }
   else
   {
      printf("Converted successfully: %i\n", res);
   }

   return 0;
}