Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/09/04:48:51
On 7 May 1999, Oscar Almer wrote:
> I have been slightly put off by the non-existant official year 2000 statement
> on the DJGPP homepage. How much research can it take?
You need to clarify what do you mean by ``DJGPP''.
If you mean the software developed as part of the core DJGPP project,
and which is distributed in the files djdevNNN.zip and djlsrNNN.zip,
then there are no Y2K problems there. These distributions include a
standard C library which represents time as the number of seconds
since 1/1/1970; these will not overflow before the 22nd century. Some
non-standard functions use a 7-bit year since 1980; these also are
good enough until the 22nd century. djdev and djlsr also include
several utilities, but none of these deals with time directly, so they
all inherit the properties of the library.
However, if by ``DJGPP'' you mean the ports of GNU tools and the rest
of stuff available on the DJGPP sites in directories other than v2/,
then your question should be presented to the maintainer(s) of those
tools.
The above is a technical opinion based on certain knowledge of the
internals of the DJGPP library; please do not treat it as some kind of
official statement. I have no idea what kind of research would it
take to generate a formal Y2K compliance statement (nor do I
understand why somebody with some knowledge in the subject matter
would need to do that).
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