Re: Debian and the millenium bug
Quoting Oliver Elphick ([email protected]):
> Why does glibc2 not use long long (64 bits) for dates, insead of long int
> (32 bits)? Surely we ought to change this now along with all the other
> libc6 changes?
IIRC, POSIX stipulates that time_t has to be a standard arithmetic type
whereas long long is a non-standard extension. (Although I also seem to
recall some talk of ANSI standardizing long long, so that might not be
true anymore.)
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