From kde-devel  Mon Sep 29 08:13:12 2003
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:13:12 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t
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Am Montag, 29. September 2003 10:01 schrieb Adriaan de Groot:
> does the fix, by using the right pointer size and then assigning a 64-bit
> quantity to a 32-bit field (might cause a warning, I haven't tried).
It would give a warning on 64bit only - and it's their decision to leave the
32bit field, so they shouldn't be worried too much about logins after 2038 ;)

>
> Now the question is: where to fix this? I could keep the patches local to
> FBSD, or I can commit in KDE CVS. It's a few cycles wasted here and there
It's not wasted per se, it's POSIXly correct code.

> where time_t is 32-bit, but hey. It's also a little code convolution that
> needs to be documented all over the place.
Do we have so many places reading utmp?

Greetings, Stephan

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