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Subject: Re: Problem with DHCLIENT vs 64-bit time_t
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On Sunday 22 February 2004 05:14 pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
> > This code is then obviously also broken on amd64 and ia64 [...]
>
> yep, if they have 64-bit time_t.

They are little endian though, so treating a time_t * as an int32_t* direct=
ly=20
still works ok (for some value of works).  That is why only sparc64 has a=20
catastrophic failure.

=2D-=20
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