Re: (ITS#8890) Bug fix patches unbreaking the build on x32 systems

[tg@mirbsd.de]

Howard Chu dixit:

>Thanks to the wonderful geniuses at Microsoft, not all the world
>uses LP64. IL32 is a thing. And this code works on those platforms.

These changes do not break LLP64 (this is the correct name
for the 64-bit Windows model).

>If you're going to submit a patch, submit a correct one. It's that

The buffer size is a separate issue from this. Feel free
to fix it, now that you found it.

The patch I submit fixed your software on systems where
time_t doesn=E2=80=99t fit into a long, all of them, and that
*will* include 64-bit Windows at least in 2038, except
some architectures need these fixes right now. They don=E2=80=99t
break anything else before 2038, and afterwards, nothing
new is broken worsely either.

>simple. If you refuse to do that, then go away.

You know what, I=E2=80=99ll just do that and leave you to fix
your software on your own, clearly you are oh so utterly
competent in doing that.

//mirabilos
--=20
=E2=80=9CIt is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.=E2=80=9D
=09-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2