Re: timestamp overflows sprinter interface

Subject: Re: timestamp overflows sprinter interface

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:40:49 -0400

To: Peter Wang, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On a system where time_t is 64-bit and 'int' is a signed 32-bit integer
> type, timestamps beyond some time in 2038 will be serialised to a
> negative value.

I admire your forward thinking!

>
> The simplest solution appears to be to change the type in the sprinter
> method to int64_t:
>
>     void (*integer)(struct sprinter *, int64_t);
>
> Any other suggestions?

Since this is an internal API, I don't really see a big problem with
doing this.

d
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