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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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