Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-10 Thread Adrian Hey
On Wed 09 Jun, Jeff Dalton wrote: It's hard to see how this can really be a Y2K issue. Yes, but Y2K compliance (or lack of it) might well affect any fixes for this problem. The point is that you can't assume that Y2K is a non-issue for all compilers. Some do use date and time to modify their

Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Hugo Bouckaert wrote: I would like to know whether haskell compilers (hugs, hbc and lmlc) are fuly y2k compliant. Can anyone fill me in on this? ... and , if you are already here,... could somebody explain, please, what does it mean to have a compiler which is *NOT* y2k compliant, what is

Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Adrian Hey
On Wed 09 Jun, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: ... and , if you are already here,... could somebody explain, please, what does it mean to have a compiler which is *NOT* y2k compliant, I have found that some compilers put the date and time of compilation in the resulting object files, so it is

RE: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Mark P Jones
Hi Hugo, | I would like to know whether haskell compilers (hugs, hbc and lmlc) are | fuly y2k compliant. Can anyone fill me in on this? My understanding is that none of the current Haskell implementors can afford to answer a question like this because none of us have the developer, support, or