Work around BSD whose typeof(tv.tv_sec) != time_t

According to POSIX, tv_sec is supposed to be a time_t, but OpenBSD
(and FreeBSD, too) defines it to be a long, which triggers a type
mismatch when a pointer to it is given to localtime_r().

Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 1165d30adfa783f7cbaa871e38a1370f9f9c4996..409a17d46424083b62f21e7e278393cee7bfa080 100644 (file)
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -871,13 +871,15 @@ unsigned long approxidate(const char *date)
        int number = 0;
        struct tm tm, now;
        struct timeval tv;
+       time_t time_sec;
        char buffer[50];
 
        if (parse_date(date, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) > 0)
                return strtoul(buffer, NULL, 10);
 
        gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
-       localtime_r(&tv.tv_sec, &tm);
+       time_sec = tv.tv_sec;
+       localtime_r(&time_sec, &tm);
        now = tm;
        for (;;) {
                unsigned char c = *date;