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Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:06:32 +0200 |
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:25:39 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > previously current-time-string never threw an error, while now it
> > will.
>
> Hmm, well, it'd be more precise to say something like this:
>
> Previously with out-of-range time stamps, current-time-string
> sometimes dumped core and sometimes had other (somewhat random)
> behavior. Now it reliably throws an error.
The core dumps were not mentioned in the documentation, so I doubt
that some code was relying on that. OTOH, it's quite possible that
some code _does_ rely on the fact that it never threw an error.
> I don't think this change in behavior will be a real problem in
> practice. The only time stamps affected are those before the year
> -999 or after the year 9999. Users with old programs won't
> expect such time stamps to work, since historically those time stamps
> never worked on 32-bit systems.
I don't like incompatible changes so close to release, but I'll let
Richard decide.
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, (continued)
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/20
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/20
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/28
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/28
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/30
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/30
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/20
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/25
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/25
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/26
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/27
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/28
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/29
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/27
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/25
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/25
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/27
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/26
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- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Paul Eggert, 2006/03/28
- Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/28