Re: [Mingw-users] Definition of struct timespec in MinGW runtime 3.21

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:08:37 +0800, ho han keng wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> [description of problem with struct timespec snipped]

>
> Hello Eli,
...
>
> I did a simple C++ a.out to test the numeric limits of time_t
> for Heisenbug and time_t overflows by the year 2106. So we
> may not be around then, not our problem?
>

Hello ho han keng,

The problem is not the date range allowed by long long or time_t.
The problem is:
>> if the replacement definition ... uses time_t, and the application
>> then includes unistd.h, the compilation will fail; for one such problem
>> that already happened see
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-01/msg00042.html
>>

There is also a probable incompatibility with pthreads.

Regards,
John Brown.