Hubert Figuière wrote on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:53:39 -0700:
> On 04/04/12 11:33 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> I haven't followed the discussion on strptime for Windows, but I'm
>> wondering why we are using it for non-Windows builds now.
> Simply put, because if you want to make sure we hit the same bug in all
> platform it is safer that way.
It doesn't make any sense to me to reimplement existing library code, and
I would bet that a library implementation is far safer, more flawless and
better maintained than copies of it.
> There are already enough issue with people stripping Gtk off their Linux
> machine to save a few bytes...
Really? No comment.
>> And BTW, there seem to be issues with the implementation:
> No it is just glibc.
Aha, so what's about "same bug in all platform" now?
Ingo
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