Re: Defect in XSH asctime()

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxx said:
> If asctime() is called with a tm structure whose tm_year field results
> in a year > 9999 (which is possible with 64-bit time_t), the current
> specification of asctime() would result in asctime() to overrunning a
> 26-character buffer;  the specification says the sprintf() format
> for printing the year is "%d", and (eg) a 5-digit number would print
> 5 characters, overrunning the buffer.

WG14 examined this issue quite a long time ago. We decided that the
behaviour was simply undefined. There is no requirement that a particular
string appear in the buffer, or even that the function call returns in a
sensible state (or at all). It's *UNDEFINED*.

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