✘Build failure

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Yo Eric!
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:35:03 -0400
> "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel at 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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