From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/03
Date: 2000-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccg0wfb02q.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84pvrs$7q1@ftp.kvaerner.com
"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar wrote
> >
> >Note by contrast that when the Unix date runs out of 32 bits,
> >this will cause QUITE a bit of disruption to existing programs
> >and be quite a bit more difficult to fix.
> >
>
>
> Only if there are any 32 bit unixes around at that time - 2038. Many of us
> reading this will not be around then :-(. As far as I know all 64 bit unixes
> uses a time_t size of 64 bit.
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. ;-)
- Bob
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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 [this message]
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 ` 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
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Y21C Bug Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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 ` 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 ` 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
2000-01-05 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
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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