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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  yantar92@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:40:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvczfcy0u4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wndku1y3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:29:08 +0300")

> You evidently think about systems where libc is a single shared
> library, and the _only_ library used by Emacs where the 32-bit time_t
> type is used.  Think more generally: what if some of what you consider
> 'libc' was linked statically into Emacs, and what if some of the other
> libraries Emacs uses use 32-bit time type?

I tried but my head rebooted along the way, I think it's a safety
mechanism to avoid an explosion.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-13 16:40 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
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 [this message]

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