Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
> > Gcc: nnfolder+archive:outgo
> > Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:58:09 -0800
> >
> > 2006-03-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> >
> >         Do not use ctime, since it has undefined behavior with
> >         out-of-range time stamps.  This fixes a bug where
> >         (current-time-string '(2814749767106 0)) would make Emacs dump
> >         core on 64-bit Solaris 8; the fix is to remove all uses of ctime
> >         from the Emacs source code.
>
>
> Personally, I find it preposterous that we need to reinvent library
> functions.  Isn't there a better (safer) library function, or a
> combination thereof, that we could use instead of rolling our own?

Why not have Emacs test for an out-of-range time stamp before
calling ctime?

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Kevin Rodgers