Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > Yo Eric! > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:35:03 -0400 > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > > > > Expected 3486372600 Was 104913720 > > Sure looks like integer overflow. > > > Something about the expression "(int32_t)*yearstart + tmp" is > > computing differently under MacOS than elsewhere. Anyone got any > > ideas? > > yearstart is uint32_t, and our expected result will not fir in a > uint32_t (3486372600 == 0xCFCDD2F8). > > So the compiler is not changing uint32_t to int32_t where we need it to.
It's a good thing the Mac balked. There was a bug in the way I was
passing out the computation result. Embarrassing.
Fred, do you still get this error with xurrebt head?
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