Potential issues with the snippet to parse SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in C

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:03:17PM -0800, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > I was wondering... maybe I could write a library, libgetnum, and add
> > these functions there. That way, all those code bases in Debian that
> > have the problem we found in gettime() could be fixed easily by just
> > calling getnum() internally as I did here.
> >
> > I also fixed so many other hidden bugs in this PR, that other
> > projects could benefit from such a library.
> 
> Speaking just for myself, I worry that most codebases won't rush to
> introduce a new library dependency "just" to parse this value (even if
> they should), but no doubt we should iron out any problems in the
> snippet regardless.

I've finished writing the library:
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/alx/liba2i.git/>

At least to a point that it works.  I still need to tweak the build
system a little bit to produce release tarballs; but I'll leave that for
when someone shows real interest in packaging it.

Have a lovely day,
Alex

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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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