Le jeudi 06 janvier 2011 à 10:47 -0500, R. David Murray a écrit :
> 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.
If there are only issues on Windows, we can add a #ifdef _MSC_VER and
raise a ValueError("Stupid OS, install Linux or recompile with Cygwin")
for year < 1900.
Does Cygwin and MinGW have the same issues?
Victor
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