From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:04:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] replace unsinged long with time_t
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0811062203120.19166@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <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