On 4/11/25 22:42, James Mulder wrote:
<snip!> But thanks for all that.
This bigger concern for programs that use STCK or STCKF is the TOD clock
wrap in September 2042. Any code that uses a logical compare (like CLC) for
two timestamps will get the wrong result when one timestamp is before the wrap
and the other is after. So there is a lot of code in operating systems,
middleware, and probably applications, that needs to be changed to use a
different comparison technique before then.
...
Doesn't the Clock Comparator already employ windowing? How long?
70 years? That would already impact programmers who naively use
a hard-coded x'FFFFFFFF' to mean "never" or x')00000000' to mean
"immediately."
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gil
