From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T18:36:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30050] Re: years in Time.utc

Hi,

At Thu, 6 May 2010 04:46:45 +0900,
Benoit Daloze wrote in [ruby-core:30031]:
> Just playing in irb, remembering that 1.9.2 is supposed to manage any
> Time and got a weird problem:
> 
> irb for ruby-1.9.2-r27602
> > Time.new -20000
> => -20000-01-01 00:00:00 +0000  # immediate
> > Time.new -20001
> => -20001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000  # immediate
> > Time.new -20002 # Seems to be an infinite loop, it takes 100% during at least 60s
> ^C^C^CKilled
> 
> Any idea why does it get stuck like that ?

Following code also freezes on x86_64 but works fine on i386.
Do you know how to report the bug to apple?


#include <time.h>

int
main(void)
{
    time_t t = -693369331200L;
    localtime(&t);
    return 0;
}


-- 
Nobu Nakada