[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

Andy Burns usenet at andyburns.uk
Sat Jan 9 08:30:37 EST 2021


abrsvc wrote:

> Perhaps a different approach is needed here.  While the focus thus
> far has been on the IF statement, perhaps this code has never worked
> as expected.  Can you post the machine code listing for that segment
> of the code?  I have worked with a number of code bases where the
> code appears to work, but in fact was not and the failure was hidden.
> That may be the case here as well.

I suspect the code in both 'halves' of the IF statement is working as 
expected, if year > 2020 thenreject the date, otherwise accept the date.

The real question is what demon (possibly lurking in a non-obvious part 
of the system) will barf if a 2021 date were accepted?  There may be no 
demon.




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