On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:08:18PM +1300, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:
> ...
> > Right. what happens is that localtime(3) returns NULL, because the
> > year is not representable as an int. struct tm.tm_year must be an int
> > according to posix.
> >
> > The diff below catches the case.
>
> ok guenther@
>
>
> > But it does not solve that 64-bit
> > time_t can represent years that do not fit into the int sized tm_year.
>
> Sure, and before there was the problem that there were struct
> localtime values that mktime() could not convert to a time_t. Lacking
> types of fractional bit width, we have to live with one or the other,
> no?
indeed, it's one or the other.
I need to check which of the time functions can returns NULL. The man
page is awfully silent on that.
-Otto
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> Philip Guenther
