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    SubjectRe: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?
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    kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
    > kullstam@ne.mediaone.net (Johan Kullstam) wrote on 05.01.00
    > in <m23dscf86w.fsf@sophia.axel.nom>:
    > > 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

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