Re: Change to time() fn?

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From: Stephen Friedl
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:22

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The recent spate of articles on the implementation of times encourages
me to post a reminder to all UNIX folks -- do NOT use /long/ when you
mean /time_t/.

In my otherwise highly portable code, I got sloppy because I didn't
want to mess around with #include <sys/types.h> everywhere, but I
got burned on the DEC Alpha machine.  It is a 64-bit machine, and
their time_t is a 32-bit /int/, not a 64-bit long.

Be warned and don't make the bozo blunder I made.

     Stephen

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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
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Subject: Re: Change to time() fn?
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Date: 28 Sep 92 18:22:29 GMT
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