[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/9/21 7:35 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> 
>> issinoho wrote:
>>
>>> if (atoi (date_string + 5)>  2020)
>>
>> That code is type unsafe for starters. atoi() requires an ascii string,
>> but you are trying to add 5 decimal to an ascii string ?. 
> 
> atoi requires a *pointer* to an asciiz string, presumably in this case 
> the format is something like DDMMMYYYY, so that the +5 starts the 
> decimal conversion from the address of the first Y.
> 

Am I the only one who things this was fat fingered and the example
should really be: if ((atoi (date_string) + 5) >  2020)

I would have expected the original to generate an error at compile
time.

bill