Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:

>       * lib-src/b2m.c: Include <limits.h>, for CHAR_BIT.
>       (TM_YEAR_BASE): New macro.
>       (string_from_time): New function.
>       (main): Use it instead of ctime, to avoid buffer overflows with
>       outlandish time stamps.

Here ctime is only ever been called on the current wall time, if you set
that to some outlandish time stamp you already have enough problems
anyway.

>       * lib-src/fakemail.c: Likewise.

Likewise.

Andreas.

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