Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): > Why does glibc2 not use long long (64 bits) for dates, insead of long int > (32 bits)? Surely we ought to change this now along with all the other > libc6 changes?
IIRC, POSIX stipulates that time_t has to be a standard arithmetic type whereas long long is a non-standard extension. (Although I also seem to recall some talk of ANSI standardizing long long, so that might not be true anymore.) -- Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI PGP: key 1024/76556F95 from mit keyserver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger, or email with "Subject: get pgp key" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
