From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/04
Date: 2000-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84t8qk$b9q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccg0wfb02q.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wccg0wfb02q.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> 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.
Indeed it is a HUGE effort to make some code 64-bit clean, and
my guess is that unices will support 32-bit code for a long
time, and it will be a bad earthquake when there is a
requirement to change legacy 32-bit code to make it 64-bit
compatible (as will possibly happen at the date blow up time
(which will happen in our life times for at least some of us).
> 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. ;-)
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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 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
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 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
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
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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