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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/* testcase for ctime(3) with large time
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 David A Ramos <daramos@gustav.stanford.edu>
+ * Licensed under the LGPL v2.1, see the file COPYING.LIB in this tarball.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
+
+#define MAX_POSITIVE(type)  (~0 & ~((type) 1 << (sizeof(type)*8 - 1)))
+
+int do_test(int argc, char **argv) {
+	char *correct = 0, *s;
+	int status;
+
+	/* need a very high positive number (e.g., max - 1024) */
+	time_t test = MAX_POSITIVE(time_t) - 1024;
+
+	s = asctime(localtime(&test));
+
+	if (s) {
+		// copy static buffer to heap
+		correct = malloc(strlen(s)+1);
+		strcpy(correct, s);
+	}
+
+	s = ctime(&test);
+
+	printf("ANSI:\t%suClibc:\t%s", correct, s);
+
+	if (s != correct && strcmp(correct, s))
+		status = EXIT_FAILURE;
+	else
+		status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
+
+	if (correct)
+		free(correct);
+
+    return status;
+}
+
+#include <test-skeleton.c>