Re: [Boost-testing] Regression testing (1.33)

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-02 08:20:50

Victor A. Wagner Jr. <vawjr_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Above comment is present in CRT sources of both MSVC6 and MSVC71. I
>> do not know how this relates to standards in *nix world.
>
> One has to wonder why the test functions in 7.1 then and fails in
> 8.0.  Surely you don't imply that the older libraries were "better".

Well, "old" CRT returned NULL when input was negative. It's documented 
in MSDN and quite obvious when looking at source code. I dunno if 
returning NULL makes them "better" or not; it depends on what you do 
with result. However, if you test the result for NULL, probably you 
might test time_t value instead for negative, before actually calling 
localtime?

B.