[Liblas-devel] liblas throwing an error upon wrong day of the year on "corrupt" LAS file

[Howard Butler]

On Apr 4, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Martin Isenburg wrote:

>> Anyhow the problem was easily solved by changing the code in header.cpp
>> Ciao
>> Francesco
> 
> But it should be fixed in the main release. I see a Y10K bug looming ... (-;
> 
> 337	void Header::SetCreationYear(uint16_t v)
> 338	{
> 339	    // mloskot: I've taken these values arbitrarily
> 340	    if (v > 9999)
> 341	        throw std::out_of_range("year out of range");
> 342	
> 343	    m_createYear = v;
> 344	}

I agree.  These limits should be enforced by the user, not the library.  

http://trac.liblas.org/ticket/221

Howard