Re: Crash on (format-time-string "%s" '(-1 0 0)) on Windows
Please don't post general commentary to xemacs-patches. redirected to
xemacs-beta (only).
>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skyttä
<ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Ville> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 12:59, Nick V. Pakoulin wrote:
> Happens in both xemacs-21.4 and latest XEmacs beta on Windows.
> The problem is that list_to_time allows negative integers at
> the head of the time list. Hence a negative time is returned.
> In the case localtime on Windows returns NULL. The code does
> not check for it.
>
> The patch below fixes the problem. It was tested on Windows
> 2000.
Ville> I didn't test the patch, but 21.4.6 on Linux (from RedHat's
Ville> rawhide) doesn't crash:
That's right. This is a windows-only issue (bug?). I thought it was
addressed a long time ago, though. It's possible that the change that
Simon J and I made (released in 21.4.6) undid that, though.
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