From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range? Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:00:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83r13uurom.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8735gaqm6i.fsf@localhost> <83wndmutg7.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu8qp5um.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25349"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 12:04:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o0KSc-0006OO-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:04:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47556 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0KSa-0000eb-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:04:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0KPF-0006dZ-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0KPE-0005gF-6c; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:01:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=dWvlE12PJ2ih3NxW4fBQWP9eul3cay/mG7zAaYMJRAE=; b=FQnIQEU5VooE iOVCDKbvtBxaKT22TBvlM8X0Z3j8di9NtCOLkeeIh3N0MVQTYNCxFNg8OFi+F0oyaS0Vx469Ajvya wpC6F+JwfFJ3uKj/XSyOjvFkpMb8cJNReyjHC87EVdQXuhRBXZhD49j7DNmZdNbY8ijQWVPUjWJWS EPiyvm74HU0GQ7UZZ/z3+OYDwdgVN9F8N8649lW0Akh1pMip78DyVqWTGTe/VTLjm9RyRjm1v1tKp 0tSi/KuiPb70YuSjJn/L5ORsJ73bY84LL0tpzXcvHWprxp+3TMYxLbcepRZAMmTjC79cAIXo9vTlw WDMOLV/4FZjddyuQEVVLGw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1249 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0KPB-0002kZ-8R; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:01:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tu8qp5um.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:51:29 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291088 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > 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.