Re: [PATCH] strptime

On 04/04/12 02:39 PM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>
> 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.

It is the library implementation just copy.

Note that if glib as something equivalent then I'm OK to drop this for
the glib equivalent. That's also why we brought glib in in the first
place[1] :-)

>>> 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?

Yep. Much more likely to be fixed.

Hub

[1] even though I'm not sure of the long term sustainability due to glib
being everything including the kitchen sink.
Received on Thu Apr 5 01:16:40 2012