A number of functions scattered in GDL's code more or less do the same thing and should be factorized in one place in order to be easily maintained. Especially if these functions use basic system functions that may differ with the system (macOS, unix, MSW..). And, the factorized function should be documented (with Doxygen in mind).
Take the example of strtol() . It is

2) Feature Request

Currently the ordering of dimensions described in the schema is in many cases not listed in the documentation. E.g., for ElectricalSeries.data we should add to the docval that the dimensions are num_time | num_channels. This would help users avoid errors with ordering of dimensions.

This issue was motivated by #960

This issue is in part also related to #626