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Re: [PATCH] doc: mention unfixed issues with unsupported localtime() val


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: mention unfixed issues with unsupported localtime() values
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:18:15 -0800
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On 01/15/2016 08:19 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Note perl has configure time checks in place to avoid this.
As I understand it, Perl merely exposes the problem to the poor Perl user, by defining two variables that contain Configure-time guesses as to the extreme time_t values that will work, and expecting the user to check both variables before calling localtime.

It'd be nice, I suppose, if 'configure' could wrap workarounds around any localtime, localtime_r, and localtime_rz implementations that have the bug. That would be a better solution than Perl's. This doesn't sound high priority, though.



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