Re: 7.4.2 Regression tests: test stats loops indefinately...

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:36:20AM +0200, Manfred Koizar wrote:
>On Mon, 3 May 2004 20:47:31 -0400, Vikram Kulkarni wrote:
>>
>> test=# SELECT timeofday();
>> timeofday
>> -------------------------------------
>> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00.591964 1969 PST
>> (1 row)
>> [...]
>> That obviously doesn't look right. Isnt' timeofday() supposed to return
>> the current time of day? The system clock is set correctly.
>
> Vik, I guess that on your platform time_t is smaller than long. Please
> compile and run the attached C program.

hmmm... on OpenBSD-3.5/sparc64, time_t is an int...
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc64/include/ansi.h?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

The compiler is GCC 3.3.2 with ProPolice.

dt% ./a.out
old: >>Wed Dec 31 19:00:00.451903 1969 EST<<
new: >>Tue May 04 10:41:12.455457 2004 EDT<<

But on my older, OpenBSD-3.1/i386 computer, time_t is defined in the
same way, though the compiler is GCC 2.95.3. and the two dates printed
there match. hmm...

-Vik

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