+
+/* Before Exim 4.64, strings consisting entirely of whitespace compared
+equal to 0. Unfortunately, people actually relied upon that, so preserve
+the behaviour explicitly. Stripping leading whitespace is a harmless
+noop change since strtol skips it anyway (provided that there is a number
+to find at all). */
+if (isspace(*s))
+ {
+ while (isspace(*s)) ++s;
+ if (*s == '\0')
+ {
+ DEBUG(D_expand)
+ debug_printf("treating blank string as number 0\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+