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Re: [PATCH 0/4] replace unsinged long with time_t

From
Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date
Nov 6, 2008, 21:04 UTC
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<alpine.LRH.1.10.0811062203120.19166@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr>
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.0811061000430.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In theory, some platform might have a 64-but "unsigned long long" time_t 
> even if the architecture is 32-bit (apparently windows used to do that if 
> you included <time64.h>, for example), but since we wouldn't take advantage 
> of that anyway, even then there is no real advantage.

It could also be worth to notice that there are even 64-bit architectures that feature 32-bit 'time_t'...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Message 9 of 9 in “replace unsinged long with time_t”
  1. 0/4 replace unsinged long with time_tdavid@statichacks.org, Nov 6, 2008
  2. 1/4 Changed timestamps to time_t instead of unsigneddavid@statichacks.org, Nov 6, 2008
  3. 2/4 Changed timestamps to time_t in header filesdavid@statichacks.org, Nov 6, 2008
  4. 3/4 Changed timestamps to time_t instead of unsigned long for approxidate()david@statichacks.org, Nov 6, 2008
  5. 4/4 Changed timestamps to time_tdavid@statichacks.org, Nov 6, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsNov 6, 2008
  7. David BrysonNov 6, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsNov 6, 2008
  9. Daniel StenbergNov 6, 2008

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