Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:25:17 -0600 (CST)

>On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:39:51AM -0600, Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> wrote:
>> >long long is in ISO/ANSI C99.
>>
>> yes it is. but the number of bits is not.
>
>Come on... if you want a 64 bit interger type just use "int64_t", which is
>also part of standard c.

The key is that I don't always want a 64 bit int. Sometimes I want a
128 bit int. Ocasionally I need a 4096 bit int, or a 12 bit int, or 36 bit...
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