ref: a82c479140df86cfdb59694cdbd53599b530f6ab
dir: /libc/itoa.c/
// A utility function to reverse a string void reverse(char str[], int length) { int start = 0; int end = length - 1; while (start < end) { char temp = str[start]; str[start] = str[end]; str[end] = temp; end--; start++; } } char* itoa(int num, char* str, int base) { int i = 0; int isNegative = 0; // Handle 0 explicitly if (num == 0) { str[i++] = '0'; str[i] = '\0'; return str; } /* In standard itoa(), negative numbers are handled only with base 10. Otherwise numbers are considered unsigned. */ if (num < 0 && base == 10) { isNegative = 1; num = -num; } // Process individual digits while (num != 0) { int rem = num % base; str[i++] = (rem > 9) ? (rem - 10) + 'a' : rem + '0'; num = num / base; } // If number is negative, append '-' if (isNegative) str[i++] = '-'; // Reverse the string reverse(str, i); // Append string terminator str[i] = '\0'; return str; }