From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/04
Date: 2000-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84sltt$7s3@ftp.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccg0wfb02q.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff wrote :
>And from what I've heard, making Unix code "64-bit clean" hasn't been so
>easy, which is exactly the sort of thing Robert Dewar was talking about.
>
>If it were as easy as changing some "Word_Size" constant, then people
>wouldn't have invented a fancy term like "64-bit clean" for it. ;-)
That does not change the fact that it is very unlikely that there will be any
machines with a 32bit Unix outside museums in 2038 and that they will not run
out of time any time soon.
Transitioning from a 32 bit to a 64 bit Unix world is probably painful for a
lot of software vendors. But this is a process that is going on today. All the
big vendors either have transitioned to a 64 bit Unix or are planning to do so.
I don't remember whether Linux is 32 or 64 bit or something inbetween.
Regardless, by 2038 the migration will be over a long time ago.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 0:00 Y21C Bug reason67
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug :-) Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen [this message]
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <387dfb1e.cbbf14c7@mail.com>
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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