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author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2017-04-20 23:52:13 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-04-21 08:07:15 +0300 |
commit | a07fb0507fdf745704e54d77aa19780580636f56 (patch) | |
tree | f0c8b7f6e8a73da1a94ffe7edfe9c1cd9e7a42e9 /commit.c | |
parent | e467dc148d0375ed83300589281f749fcbdd690d (diff) |
t0006 & t5000: prepare for 64-bit timestamps
Git's source code refers to timestamps as unsigned longs. On 32-bit
platforms, as well as on Windows, unsigned long is not large enough to
capture dates that are "absurdly far in the future".
It is perfectly valid by the C standard, of course, for the `long` data
type to refer to 32-bit integers. That is why the `time_t` data type
exists: so that it can be 64-bit even if `long` is 32-bit. Git's source
code simply uses an incorrect data type for timestamps, is all.
The earlier quick fix 6b9c38e14cd (t0006: skip "far in the future" test
when unsigned long is not long enough, 2016-07-11) papered over this
issue simply by skipping the respective test cases on platforms where
they would fail due to the data type in use.
This quick fix, however, tests for *long* to be 64-bit or not. What we
need, though, is a test that says whether *whatever data type we use for
timestamps* is 64-bit or not.
The same quick fix was used to handle the similar problem where Git's
source code uses `unsigned long` to represent size, instead of `size_t`,
conflating the two issues.
So let's just add another prerequisite to test specifically whether
timestamps are represented by a 64-bit data type or not. Later, after we
switch to a larger data type, we can flip that prerequisite to test
`time_t` instead of `long`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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