> There is a special case in nabstime.h for AIX, which imho
> got swapped. The normal case for me would be INT_MIN
> and not the 0x80000001.
> There is a comment that I don't understand at all given the below
> source code:
>
> /*
> * AIX considers 2147483648 == -2147483648 (since they have
> the same bit
> * representation) but uses a different sign sense in a comparison to
> * these integer constants depending on whether the constant is signed
> * or not!
> */
> #if defined (_AIX)
> #define NOSTART_ABSTIME ((AbsoluteTime) INT_MIN)
> #else
> #define NOSTART_ABSTIME ((AbsoluteTime) 0x80000001)
> /* -2147483647 (- 2^31) */
> #endif
>
> But that is unfortunately not the problem. Looks like yet
> another broken compiler to me :-(
Ok, the comparison ((int) time) > ((int) 0x80000001) is the problem.
Reading the comment again and again, I have come to the conclusion,
that the intent was originally to avoid INT_MIN on AIX.
My solution would be to use INT_MIN for all ports, which has the advantage
that the above problematic comparison can be converted to !=,
since no integer will be smaller than INT_MIN.
Please apply the patch and all works well.
Thanks
Andreas