From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range?
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:00:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r13uurom.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu8qp5um.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:51:29 +0800)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:51:29 +0800
>
> > Any 32-bit build of Emacs is potentially prone to this problem,
> > depending on what time-related APIs it is using. If time_t is a
> > 32-bit type, this problem will still exist.
>
> Thanks for the clarification!
>
> I am now wondering if it is soon going to be the time to do something
> about it. 2037 is getting closer and the 32-bit limitation may become a
> real issue for the 32-bit Emacs builds.
Yes, at some point in the not-so-distant future we will have to face
the issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-12 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-12 9:13 What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range? Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 9:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-12 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-12 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 0:30 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 9:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-13 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-13 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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