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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2017-04-26 21:29:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-04-27 13:07:39 +0900 |
| commit | dddbad728c93280fe54ef86699b6d70e2aab44d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c2a48100bf8597f0771e6737fda19e7255c737dc /git-compat-util.h | |
| parent | cb71f8bdb5a105cd5b66142b887989d9addc82d0 (diff) | |
| download | git-dddbad728c93280fe54ef86699b6d70e2aab44d1.tar.gz git-dddbad728c93280fe54ef86699b6d70e2aab44d1.tar.xz | |
timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps
Git's source code assumes that unsigned long is at least as precise as
time_t. Which is incorrect, and causes a lot of problems, in particular
where unsigned long is only 32-bit (notably on Windows, even in 64-bit
versions).
So let's just use a more appropriate data type instead. In preparation
for this, we introduce the new `timestamp_t` data type.
By necessity, this is a very, very large patch, as it has to replace all
timestamps' data type in one go.
As we will use a data type that is not necessarily identical to `time_t`,
we need to be very careful to use `time_t` whenever we interact with the
system functions, and `timestamp_t` everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'git-compat-util.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | git-compat-util.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h index cd522903e..72c12173a 100644 --- a/git-compat-util.h +++ b/git-compat-util.h @@ -319,8 +319,10 @@ extern char *gitdirname(char *); #define PRIo32 "o" #endif +typedef unsigned long timestamp_t; #define PRItime "lu" #define parse_timestamp strtoul +#define TIME_MAX ULONG_MAX #ifndef PATH_SEP #define PATH_SEP ':' |