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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Amir Shalem <amir@boom.org.il>
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:39:33PM +0300, Amir Shalem wrote:
> it was always long int,
> whenever you want to print time_t
> in programs it was always
> printf("%ld", (time_t)time);

That cast is wrong; if you want to print a long, cast it to long.
time_t is (was) only a long on the i386; on the alpha it was an int,
and code which assumed it to be a long was unportable.  It was changed
to help catch exactly this kind of mistake.

Kris
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