Re: tzcode update

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Looking closer, I don't understand how that change was supposed to do
>> anything.
>
> The point of that patch is to avoid an off-by-one result for years BC.
> The direction of rounding in integer division with a negative numerator
> is undefined in C (or at least used to be --- did C99 tighten this up?).

Oh, I see. In that case we're good. The corresponding new code in tzcode
actually looks like this:

> ! static int
> ! leaps_thru_end_of(const int y)
> ! {
> ! return (y >= 0) ? (y / 4 - y / 100 + y / 400) :
> ! -(leaps_thru_end_of(-(y + 1)) + 1);
> ! }

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