Script does what is expected and tries to do it as
smartly as possible.
+ remove occurrences of two blank comment lines
next to each other after Id string line removed.
+ remove entire comment blocks which only exited to
contain CVS Ids
+ If the processing left a blank line at the top of
a file, it was removed.
* Makefile.am, preinstall.am, libmisc/Makefile.am, wrapup/Makefile.am:
Add the stringto family of string to number converters. These are
error checking wrappers for the strtoXXX methods and do their best to
return false if the conversion failed. The error checking required
for this is tedious and error prone. Hence better to have in a family
of helper routines.
* libmisc/stringto/stringto.h, libmisc/stringto/stringto_template.h,
libmisc/stringto/stringtodouble.c, libmisc/stringto/stringtofloat.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtoint.c, libmisc/stringto/stringtolong.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtolonglong.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtounsignedchar.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtounsignedint.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtounsignedlong.c,
libmisc/stringto/stringtounsignedlonglong.c: New files.
