Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

[David Wragg]

[e-mail] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
> [e-mail] (Johan Kullstam)  wrote on 05.01.00
> in <[e-mail]>:
> > i'd also like to see C types with *specified* bit widths, e.g.,
> > int16, int32, uint8 &c.  then you could write more portable code when
> > you really need a certain number of bits like for CRC algorithms.  in
> > case of 36bit computing on a pdp-10 the compiler could at least
> > complain about lack of 32 bit support (even if it would be easy to
> > add) instead of silently failing.
> 
> C0X will have all that.

It got passed a few months ago, to become C99.

David Wragg