RE: [PATCH v3] date: detect underflow/overflow when parsing dates with timezone offset

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 7:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> I wonder if this should be of timestamp_t type instead, as the check
>> is done against *timestamp in parse_date_basic() where *timestamp is
>> of type timestamp_t to match?
>
>Also, as you can see at one of the GitHub CI jobs, e.g.,
>
>
>https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/9455916669/job/26046731619#step:6:
>1915
>
>you'd need to either exclude some "these are too large timestamps for the
system"
>tests from 32-bit systems or expect output on them to be different from
64-bit
>systems.
>
>As you are actively detecting the condition and giving an error message
"too large
>for _this_ system", I think it is a good idea to actually do the latter,
i.e. on 64-bit
>system make sure parsing is done correctly, and on 32-bit system make sure
you get
>that "too large for this system" error.

Does this imply that timestamp tests will fail on 32-bit systems? I am
unsure how to interpret this. Can you please clarify?

Thanks,
Randall