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<<On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:20:11 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> said:

> time_t needs to be consistent across all FreeBSD platforms.

No, it doesn't.

> Otherwise we get in consistent behavior across our platforms.

Which will always be the case given that some platforms are ILP32 and
some are LP64.  s/time_t/size_t/g and see where that argument gets
you.

> This includes both the size of it, and the spelling of the printf()
> format specifier.

Nonsense.

Any program which attempts to print a time_t without casting
appropriately is simply, flat-out, wrong, and has been wrong for more
than ten years now.

-GAWollman


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