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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gawk] mktime(3) not detected on FreeBSD with -static |
Date: | Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:38:01 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
Václav Haisman wrote:
How buggy is FreeBSD's `mktime()`? Links, bugs?
See the mktime test program in gawk's 'configure' script. It probably comes from: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/mktime.m4Some mktime implementations are quite bad: they can go into infinite or seemingly-infinite loops and/or dump core in addition to returning incorrect answers. I don't know which of the problems FreeBSD mktime has. You should be OK if you use glibc mktime, Gnulib mktime, or the reference mktime in tzcode.
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