[tz] Direct implementation of mktime_z
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Sep 24 07:14:25 UTC 2022
On 9/23/22 22:29, Ted Phelps via tz wrote:
> One important trick I've used is to embed a year/month/day/hour/minute
> value in a 64 bit integer for each leap second. That would work out to
> 8 x TZ_MAX_LEAPS = 400 extra bytes in struct state. Is that likely to
> be a problem?
I wouldn't think so, as it's already 25 KiB.
> I see that
> there's already an int_fast64_t type in localtime.c so I guess 64-bit
> math is acceptable?
Yes, though it's really >=64-bit math, since int_fast64_t might have
more than 64 bits.
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