NH> atoi() IS standard and is included in stdlib.
NH> atoi   is NOT standard and could be anything.
NH> atoi() is equivalent to:  (int)strtol(s, (char ***)NULL, 10)
NH> atoi() can easily be replaced by the usage of sprintf() [...]

Jd> 2s/atoi/itoa/
Jd> 4s/atoi/itoa/

Jd> The statement in line 3 is not completely true (Consider 
Jd> what is defined to happen to "errno".).  The statement in 
Jd> (the corrected) line 4 is not completely true (Consider the 
Jd> use of itoa() to generate base 36 strings.).

Base 36?  I've never seen or heard of base 36 being used outside of an 
academic exercise.  Have you?  What's the necessity of this base?

Base 32, however, can be used as:

/*
  Test of sprintf()
*/

#include 

int main(void)
{
 char TargetStr[20];
 long Source = 331;

 sprintf(TargetStr, "0x%x", Source);

 return 0;
}

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