From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b69a8818c20ab9f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Re: Y21C Bug Date: 2000/01/04 Message-ID: <84sltt$7s3@ftp.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 568121578 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <84nqbo$q28$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84o0g2$u8v$1@nnrp1.deja.com><84pvrs$7q1@ftp.kvaerner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Organization: Kv�rner Group IT Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,