Re: [bug-gawk] mktime(3) not detected on FreeBSD with -static

[Paul Eggert]

Václav Haisman wrote:
> How buggy is FreeBSD's `mktime()`? Links, bugs?

See the mktime test program in gawk's 'configure' script. It probably comes 
from:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/mktime.m4

Some mktime implementations are quite bad: they can go into infinite or 
seemingly-infinite loops and/or dump core in addition to returning incorrect 
answers. I don't know which of the problems FreeBSD mktime has. You should be OK 
if you use glibc mktime, Gnulib mktime, or the reference mktime in tzcode.