Yo Eric!

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:35:03 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > Expected 3486372600 Was 104913720

Sure looks like integer overflow.

> Something about the expression "(int32_t)*yearstart + tmp" is
> computing differently under MacOS than elsewhere.  Anyone got any
> ideas?

yearstart is uint32_t, and our expected result will not fir in a
uint32_t (3486372600 == 0xCFCDD2F8).

So the compiler is not changing uint32_t to int32_t where we need it to.

RGDS
GARY
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