Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 14:29:18 EST


Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:

[...]

> The key is that I don't always want a 64 bit int. Sometimes I want a
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^
                                           As in "very, very occasionally"
                                           would be more accurate for the
                                           wast majority...

> 128 bit int. Ocasionally I need a 4096 bit int, or a 12 bit int, or 36 bit...
               ^^^^^^^^^^^
        As in "once in a blue moon"
        for most of us.

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