Re: __TIME_MIN/__TIME_MAX

From: Jacques Vidrine (nectar_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/15/03

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    Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 07:04:04 -0600
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>

    Bruce Evans said the following on 11/15/03 2:17 AM:
    > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
    >> So this kind of thing OK?
    >>
    >> long n;
    >> time_t t;
    >> errno = 0;
    >> n = strtoul(...);
    >> if (errno == ERANGE || (long)(t = n) != n)
    >> /* out of range */;
    >
    >
    > Not quite like that. strtoul() returns an unsigned long whose value may
    > be lost by assigning it to a plain long. Mixtures of signed and unsigned
    > types are tricky to handle as usual. Suppose we make n unsigned long
    > and it has value ULONG_MAX, and time_t is long, then (t = n) == n,
    > but t doesn't actually represent n (casting (t = n) to long or unsigned
    > long doesn't help). So it seems to be necessary to be aware that time_t
    > is signed and either use strtol() initially or check that t >= 0 if
    > n is unsigned long. If time_t is actually signed then we may get a GCC
    > warning for this check...

    Doh, sorry, that's a typo. I meant strtol (which is what is currently
    used in the relevant portion of libc--- strptime.c, BTW). Negative
    values must be allowed here.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se
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