Date: 08 May 1998 17:46:32 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: tomeij@iname.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K and the Epoch Clock Message-ID: <xzpzpgsvk87.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "11.10.9"'s message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 10:24:51 -0400" References: <355315B3.859FE9CF@from.net>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
"11.10.9" <Cant.Spam@from.net> writes: > My I put in a vote for a 96 bit counter as, at least the FreeBSD, > standard? Not feasible. time_t needs to be a scalar, and there's no way I know of to produce 96-bit scalars in C on an ILP32 architecture. OTOH, by the time we all migrate to ILP64, we'll probably have 128-bit long longs, which would do the job nicely. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the messagehelp
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpzpgsvk87.fsf>