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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 
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:<<On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:29:18 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:
:
:>     If time_t can be a double, it damn
:>     well can be an int64_t.
:
:No, it can't.  RTFS.
:
:-GAWollman

    We are still waiting to see what both C90 and C99 say.  As DES would
    say, quote the standard.  So far nothing I've heard prevents us from
    being able to make time_t a 64 bit int on IA32.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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