Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:45:32 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdtime localtime.c Message-ID: <20021202184532.GD605@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200212021738.gB2Hc6af031936@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200212020105.gB21596L092766@repoman.freebsd.org> <200212021738.gB2Hc6af031936@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:38:06PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:05:09 -0800 (PST), Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > This solves the problem of mktime/localtime looping on ia64. Unfortunately, > > the standards say that tm_year is an 'int', so we are still stuck with a > > y2147483647 bug. > > Not necessarily a bug: the Standard also says that, if any field in > the broken-down time is too narrow to represent the correct value, > localtime() should fail with [EOVERFLOW]. I guess this proofs there's a time we'll all be late :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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