GNU bug report logs - #8017
Error compiling coreutils

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Toni Venters <toni.venters <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8017: posixtm failure
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
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 276 days ago.

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