[Privoxy-devel] how costly is --enable-strptime-sanity-checks ?

[Fabian Keil]

Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/6/16, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> >  
> >> Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:  
> >  
> >> > $ ./test
> >> > sizeof time_t = 4
> >> >
> >> > ----- old cygwin 1.5 / gcc v3
> >> > [1.5] /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Lee/t
> >> > $ gcc -mno-cygwin size.c -o test
> >> >
> >> > [1.5] /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Lee/t
> >> > $ ./test
> >> > sizeof time_t = 4
> >> >
> >> > So why isn't there a 'year 2038' problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?  
> >>
> >> Maybe there is a problem and the sanity checks just don't
> >> detect it.  
> >
> > Additionally most of the problematic time-related tests are
> > level 17 tests and should thus be skipped on native windows
> > builds due to:
> >
> > # Level 17 needs = feature status FEATURE_PTHREAD Yes
> >
> > Of course FEATURE_PTHREAD does not actually guarantee a 64
> > bit time_t, so maybe we should add a FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T
> > to make the test results easier to compare.  
> 
> That sounds good.  It looks like the standard way to check the size is
>   AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(time_t)
> which, on my machine, adds
> 
> /* The size of `time_t', as computed by sizeof. */
> #define SIZEOF_TIME_T 4
> 
> to config.h
> dunno how to get from there to FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T tho :(

FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T is available in CVS now.

Fabian
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