Subject: Re: bug#8017: posixtm failure

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:05:53 -0600

tags 8017 moreinfo
close 8017
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 11/02/11 08:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> That's a weird one.  What type is time_t on that platform,
> exactly?  Signed or unsigned?  32- or 64-bit?
> 
> That test is depending on undefined behavior at the C level,
> since it assumes signed integer overflow wraps around; it could
> be that we're running afoul of that.

With no further follow-ups in 7 years (and Mac OS X 10.6.6 being
quite out-dated), I'm closing this bug.

-assaf