On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:55:24 +0100, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote: >Le jeudi 06 janvier 2011 à 00:10 -0500, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit : >> If calling specific system functions such as strftime with tm_year < >> 0 is deemed unsafe, we can move the check to where the system function >> is called. > >What do you mean by "unsafe"? Does it crash? On my Linux box, >strftime("%Y") is able to format integers in [-2^31-1900; 2^31-1-1900] >(full range of the int type).
I believe that we have had several cases where Windows "crashed" when out-of-range values were passed to the CRT that other platforms accepted. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com
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