[tz] problems with unsigned 32-bit time_t coming up
Ian Abbott
abbotti at mev.co.uk
Wed May 29 09:55:39 UTC 2013
On 2013-05-27 22:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I vaguely recalled someone reporting trouble with the tz database
> on NetBSD or some other BSD in the past few months. The gist of it
> was that this platform has 32-bit 'long' and 64-bit 'time_t', and
> the tz code didn't play nicely on such a system.
Just FYI, the fairly new "X32" ABI for Linux also has 32-bit 'long' (and
32-bit pointers) and 64-bit 'time_t', so that's another system
architecture the code could be tested on.
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