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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: time_t definition is wrong
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In article <p05100e0fb73ee9d458f7@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn
<drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:

> Still, it seems to me that a topic like this must come up in
> discussions by the standards bodies.  SingleUnixSpec seems to have
> nothing useful to say about time_t, but maybe the latest draft of
> Posix does.

Actually the type of time_t was addressed by the original version
of the ANSI/ISO C standard.  The only requirement is that it be an
"arithmetic type capable of representing times."  That means it could
be a signed or unsigned integer type or a floating point type, but not
a pointer, struct, union, or function (duh).

I'd prefer to keep it as "long" at least on the i386, because that's
what the type was for years before ANSI renamed it to "time_t".

John
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